Response on Introduction of Outlier

  What I like about the reading is that the author uses two true stories to show the definition of outlier. He makes me have a deeper understanding of outlier. I only heard of outlier in my math class and I thought it is just a mathematical term, which it is not. The Roseto and Stewart Wolf are two outliers in health and physics. I am amazed by people who live in Roseto can have such a health body and a low heart disease rate compare to rest of people in America. The author also use detail description on Wolf’s research on Roseto. He describes all the possibilities that Wolf has thought of and how all of them don’t work in the Roseto case. The only difficult thing in the reading is in the first two paragraphs. There are many city names and some unfamiliar words to me. It slows down my reading speed a little bit, but then it is not difficult to understand the story. Honestly, at first, I was thinking when I will finish this thing. But then, it interests me; it makes me wonder why exactly those people can be so healthy. I want to ask the author why he chooses this little town as an example of outlier but not any others. I learn that we can’t be successful without others’ help; we have to understand how others affect us, just like people in Roseto. 

Introduction

My name is Jiewen Xiao; people also call me Sue, considering my Chinese name is not easy to pronounce. I don’t know why I choose this name, maybe because it’s simple. I come from Guangzhou, China; where is in the southern China. I am majoring in Business, but I am thinking about changing my major. I live on campus, in the Gillson Hall. I've assigned to a triple room, but the third roommate never showed up. The other roommate who did show up is also Chinese, which is kind of convenient. Then my roommate and I decorated the room and moved the furniture all by ourselves and make it looks just like a double room. I am pretty amazed by what we've done.

    

I've studied in the United States for two years. I went to a Catholic high school in Portland, Maine; I spend my junior year and senior year there. It was mandatory for all international students to take ESL; we have done some blogging for homework. But honestly, I don’t use blog except for homework. I don’t feel to exiting to write on the internet since it is a homework essay. It feels like limited to write for homework, it doesn't like the things I write usually to share. It is more like an essay. However, it is more convenient to share and read to our classmates. When I write on the internet, it depends on which application I use to post things. If there are some friends speak other languages following me, I will write in English. But usually I write it in Chinese, because it is easier for me to express myself in my primary language.