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.