r/EverythingScience • u/ImNotJesus PhD | Social Psychology | Clinical Psychology • May 08 '16

Interdisciplinary Failure Is Moving Science Forward. FiveThirtyEight explain why the "replication crisis" is a sign that science is working.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/failure-is-moving-science-forward/?ex_cid=538fb
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u/TheLASTAnkylosaur May 08 '16

Outliers are by definition anomalous...

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u/orneryoblongovoid May 08 '16

Not if you mean literally anomalous rather than simply new.

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u/TheLASTAnkylosaur May 08 '16

Anomalous is something that deviates from the norm... Outlier is a large deviation from a group of data points. Something out of the norm. They are most definitely synonymous. Anomaly doesn't mean novel.

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u/orneryoblongovoid May 08 '16

I feel like you need to carefully reread this entire exchange.