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An outlier can be very large or small. its usally 1.5 times the mean. they can be seen with a cat and whisker box

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The answer to the question is YES.

"Its usually 1.5 times the mean" is utter rubbish - apart from the typo. If a distribution had a mean of zero, such as the standard Normal distribution, then almost every observation would be greater than 1.5 times the mean = 0 and so almost every observation would be an outlier!

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There is no universally agreed definition for an outlier but one contender is values that are more than 1.5 times the interquartile range away from the median.

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