[R] Removing Outliers Function

[Jim Lemon]

On 02/09/2011 03:43 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
> Exactly right. I use the phrase to catch the unwary's attention. I think
> the effect is properly placed on the y-axis.
>
> IIRC, Ben Bolker (or was it Bert Gunter?) has also commented in the
> R-help or r-devel pages this curious inversion of functional meaning.
>
I certainly agree with both of you as a matter of illustration. However, 
I have heard the phrase (mis)used to indicate a situation in which the 
learner had to learn a lot quickly, or in the concrete imagery of "a 
steep learning curve must be hard to climb". Language is a wonderful 
tool, even it we sometimes break things with it.

Jim