PSY 510 PSY510 Discussion Board 6.docx – Snhu

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PSY 510 PSY510 Discussion Board 6.docx – Snhu

As most of my classmates have already mentioned, the term “outlier” is an observation point that is distant from other observations; a part of a subset of data, but exceptionally high or low on theBell Curve in relation to the rest of the data points. The very first thing that popped into my head for this assignment, even before I read the Slate article, was actually athletic genius; specifically, Babe Ruth. However, since I think the article gave us enough sport-ball analysis, I’m going to talk about my second thought- outliers in the musical world. There is a “normal” range of musical ability in most folks fall into, somewhere between being able to hum a tune fairly accurately to a more nuanced attitude to recreate or produce music.

PSY 510 PSY510 Discussion Board 6.docx – Snhu

Outliers on this scale would be the completely tone-deaf who are unable to make any sort of coherent beat on one end, and musical genii like Beethoven, Mozart, or Chopin on the other end. In the modern world. We know that many types of data fall into a normal distribution, with most of the observations falling toward the middle. However, sometimes there are outliers or data points that are very different (i.e., larger or smaller) from the others in the sample. An example from psychology would be Mensa,which requires the 98th percentile on a valid, normed test of intelligence for admission. Mensa members are therefore

PSY 510 PSY510 Discussion Board 6.docx – Snhu

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