XPost: alt.global-warming, alt.atheism   
   From: Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com   
      
   On 2/9/2026 9:06 AM, Paul Aubrin wrote:   
   > Le 09/02/2026 à 02:36, Dawn Flood a écrit :   
   >> On 2/8/2026 12:49 PM, Paul Aubrin wrote:   
   >>> Le 08/02/2026 à 16:05, Dawn Flood a écrit :   
   >>>>> Maybe, but they cannot have much influence on the statistical   
   >>>>> distribution and they cannot "attribute" them to anything.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> With respect to the median, generally, yes; on the mean, well, it   
   >>>> depends.   
   >>>   
   >>> An outlier is not a statistical moment.   
   >>   
   >> Um, this is nonsense:   
   >   
   > "Climate" is a statistical notion over 30 years or more. Outliers don't   
   > change the mean or the variance of a 30 years series in any significant   
   > way.   
   > NB : In England, it has been observed that outliers are more fréquent   
   > when jets pass near the thermometers in airports. One minute before and   
   > one minute after there is no outlier. That's a strange phenomenon that   
   > nobody has the time to study.   
   >   
      
   In terms of 30 years, climate change is NOTHING; you might as well say   
   "30 minutes".   
      
   Dawn   
      
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