Everyone is an outlier
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In sufficiently high-dimensional spaces, even uniformly distributed points will be far from the mean in at least one dimension. This is usually called the "curse of dimensionality" but in the case of people I think it's more like the "gift of dimensionality".
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Yes! It's also in 's book The Beginning of Infinity, as a part of the discussion on the anthropic principle. Many uses of this effect
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This picture from the book shows a great geometric intuition of it
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