--- In [email protected], new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > It was an outlier within the course itself. It was a one-week > aberration due to a gang fight > > that saw 10 deaths in one incident, IIRC. > > > If gang-fights were a very very rare phenomenon, and it was one death, > perhaps declaring it an outlier might in rare cases be justified. > > But gang violence is part and parcel of the urban landscape. And given > it was 10 deaths, its hardly a small speck out on the fringe.
The guy whose piece you quoted gave a fairly detailed explanation for why this incident should be considered an outlier, but you haven't addressed it at all to show why it doesn't make sense, you've just dismissed it out of hand.
