Stephen J. Dubner

I think the most fundamental error we make is mistaking a noisy, anomalous event for the norm. This happens all the time - in the stock market, in reports of crime and natural disaster, etc. The fact is that big, noisy, anomalous events catch our attention because they're anomalous, which isn't a problem in and of itself.

American Journalist

Jonathan Dee

In order to describe a particular subculture, you might want to portray people who are typical or representative of that subculture; but to dramatize it, to make it an interesting setting for a story, you want to bring someone anomalous into that setting, to see how she conforms to it, and it to her.

American Novelist

Erik Larson

Hitler was such an anomalous character - he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesmanship, his manner and in the violence which overwhelmed the country initially. I think diplomats around the world... felt like something like that simply would not be tolerated by the people of Germany.

American Author

Felix Frankfurter

It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.

American Judge

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

American Educator

Stephen Cambone

In other words, by finding the anomalous event, what you do is you get out ahead of activities.

American Politician

Eric Clapton

I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.

British Musician

Understand 'anomalous' in context to grasp the level of deviation from the norm.

Context Dependent

'Anomalous' often suggests a surprise that may not be positive, hinting at possible problems.

Negative Surprise

The word 'anomalous' is neutral, neither formal nor slang, fitting in various writings.

Neutral Tone

In science, 'anomalous' can refer to intriguing deviations inspiring further research.

Scientific Use

'Anomalous' sometimes expresses a lack of explanation for something odd.

Unexplained Mystery

The word fits well in academic papers to describe data or findings that are outliers.

Academic Language

 She doesn't have access to those medications in Ferguson's jail, because no one has access to their medications. She told me about what it was like to spend two weeks in a cage, hallucinating people and shadows and hearing voices, begging for the medication that would make it all stop, only to be ignored. And this isn't anomalous,

How jails extort the...

 couldn't predict when some crazy kid was going to knock over a display, or when the local high school decided that everybody needed to bring in coconuts the next day. Efficiency works really well when you can predict exactly what you're going to need. But when the anomalous or unexpected comes along --

The human skills we need...

 response has shown that some countries have great leadership but basically struggle to get the pandemic under control in other countries there was very wadis leadership and a very different outcome was actually observed I mean the anomalous of one of the countries to this day that has hardly

The alliances needed to...

 making there be a lot of overlap for bipartisan cooperation. So for a lot of reasons, those decades after the Second World War were an historically anomalous time. We will never get back to those low levels of polarization, I believe. But there's a lot that we can do. There are dozens

Jonathan Haidt: How...

 Last year was the hottest year in recorded history, according to NASA, and the scientists say it’s absolutely unequivocal that we are the cause of that. And we’re hearing Mother Nature and seeing the extreme events. The most anomalous extreme event since records began 200 years ago

Al Gore: How to make...

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Fisherman With No Fish PIPE...

 but but barring such an anomalous upbringing it is strange to imagine other realms separate from ours most with fundamentally different features that would rightly be called universes of their own and yet speculative though the idea surely is i

Is our universe the only...

 and whose behavioral symptoms go unrecognized, whose asthma management is not connected, and who goes on to develop high blood pressure and early heart disease or cancer will be just as anomalous as a six-month mortality from HIV/AIDS.

How childhood trauma...

 But barring such an anomalous upbringing, it is strange to imagine other realms separate from ours, most with fundamentally different features, that would rightly be called universes of their own.

Why is our universe...

 we receive good rains this fabric is going to be completely green anomalous even starting to feed you can see some impalas now are excited to feed from the fire break so these are the