So easy lesson number one-- whenever you see an extreme outlier-- and by the way, most of the outliers we observe are positive outliers because negative outliers almost always die, either literally or metaphorically. So whenever you see a positive outlier, it's always the combination of great skill plus great luck.
you have to really be mastery or expertise oriented so that you develop true skills, and, as Malcolm Gladwell told us in "Outliers," you have to find yourself in the right place at the right time. And I think that's all true.
only ones it's shameful why if we could do it why isn't everybody doing it and that's my other message about the outlier and institutions is as long as we think institutions tell us what our task is and that we have to be on task and it's a terrible thing to be distracted and we have to do things on task we're never going to build the
The wars in the Congo have been effectively going on for 30 or 40 years. The outlier is the Lebanese Civil War, which lasted 15 years but then ended in 1990. And frankly, Lebanon is as good as it gets for restoring fragile peace.
Any questions so far? an outlier for my job?
And the Japanese had lower cost, higher quality, and shorter runs, smaller volume per style. Those outliers where all the truth is. So Anchor's-- Anchor Brewing was an outlier and the truth hidden in their being the outlier was that volume and scale are not
been a steady erosion of the application of the death penalty before it was stricken from the law books. Now, the United States is famously an outlier or I should say 34 of the 50 states are outliers because 16 has abolished it a number of that has increased by five in just the last decade. But even in the United States, the death penalty is a shadow of its former self. Here we have a graph from 1625 to 2000 showing the number of American executions per capita. The graph shows that the execution rate has plunged. Today for all its notoriety,
David Wessel: Yes, they should. Right? But, that's one of the things that's kind of frustrating about this. They were sophisticated people. an outlier? It's kind of like what they do in major league sports, to try and prevent the banks from having a bidding war for talent.
that you wouldn't even feel. a few outliers that carry the entire performance.
enough to pose a a challenge to uh Voldemir Zalinski and also Mika Federov seems to be an outlier in this respect. No other prominent figure in Ukraine or an opponent of Vimmer Zalinski is
But haven't seen any kind of, like, movement, something so drastic for fashion. Is it an outlier? Or is that iPhone/Android moment coming for fashion?
and account for the culture. There were some outliers, right? Herbie Hancock incorporated hip hop into some of his composition in the '80s.
a rise in individualism across the globe, including the United States. China is an outlier in that regard. They've experienced a rise in collectivism-- a few more countries that can be true of as well, but virtually every country otherwise has experienced
And these counties are still majority black counties. But there's one outlier, and it's that blue one up here, right? The high blue dot in Alabama.
The Blast-Zone has been one of the best tools we've ever come up with, and it's the kind of thing that is really way out there for groups like us. It is an outlier, and it's something that we actually need to see a lot more of, I think, in the future. Our work on climate change has gone from oil infrastructure now more and more into changing industries.
Any questions so far? So the outliers actually are statistically-- well, at least correlated with human activity.
It's the big outlier in all the mass extinctions.
is the outlier. OK?
So an outlier is not necessarily something bad, but it could be indicative of a bug.
Is that an outlier that's indicative of a safety issue or not?
to point out outliers like Chappelle and Eddie Murphy and that's true. But in most cases, even like Jim Gaffigan, I I
It was December, I think, of 1983 and they wrote about a brewery in San Francisco called Anchor Brewing. And they were an outlier. When I was at BCG, a lot of what we did was find relationships between one thing and another, that bigger lowers costs or, I don't know--
You can see the outliers on both sides.
And were there outliers to that?
It's the one outlier.
the teacher was an outlier.
We have some sparse outliers in here.
We know who the outliers are writing too many or too few or for what type.
These are outliers on a national context.
There's two outliers here.
And what's the outlier on the opposite side?
Here are some peculiar outliers.
And these outliers go right down to where they should be.
So they found these outliers, these positive deviants, and then they did this kind of on the ground ethnographic-thick research where they tried to figure out what was it about
I'm probably an outlier on this.
won't see it if we don't that that's how the brain is structured we will not see it unless we privilege it we need a methodology that says the outlier voice has to be heard we have to structure a way that the outlier non-consensual voice the distracted disruptive voice
methodology that says the outlier voice has to be heard we have to structure a way that the outlier non-consensual voice the distracted disruptive voice can be heard in any situation it's not as easy as it sounds but but there are ways to do it there are lots of
correlation with one outlier or anomaly? I would call it an anomaly. Outliers are usually defined as three standard deviations from mean in a normal distribution, but I almost
a dramatic outlier and that is Zephoria some of you may know her. Danah Boyd, she's a senior researcher for Microsoft but she has the most number of followers even though she doesn't
The only outlier is grapes. They have more sugar than fiber. But everything else, the fiber and sugar is the same. And it actually makes, I mean, what has the highest sugar
is that the outliers the ones who really move around a lot the ones who have ants
children move the outliers are going to be boys and those are the ones who are going to be the complete focus of the
But there is one major outlier, one mammal that gets significantly more than a billion heartbeats.
So Malcolm Gladwell in his book "Outliers," he talks about meaningful work.
the person that's the outlier.
I think he's really an outlier among outliers.
us than the extremes than the outliers, and we're the ones we can then lead and run the world and the countries.
That's a great question. My sense is that in these five outlier countries, it's very consistent.
Can you look at where are the outliers in the inputs, what kinds of inputs cause outliers in the outputs?
There's a couple other outliers, but mostly those three countries.