Arrange all data points from lowest to highest. The first step when calculating outliers in a data set is to find the median (middle) value of the data set. This task is greatly simplified if the values in the data set are arranged in order of least to greatest.
Sugar also comes from sugar beets. About 200 countries grow sugar cane. The world's largest producer of sugar cane by far is Brazil, followed by India.
Sugar, you might think, is just sugar, no matter where it comes from. But not anymore. About half of all sugar in the U.S. comes from sugar beets, and the other half comes from sugar cane. Now, for the first time, sugar traders are treating these as two different commodities, with two different prices.