In a given year, a manager might never come across an example of a really aberrant management practice, a positive deviant.

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Moving forward in this new era demands new skills, such as a more precise focus on aberrant or statistically significant data in a stream, as well as better tools.

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This is particularly worrying in the light of work which shows that pathological behaviour in childhood is a good predictor of a lifetime of aberrant behaviour.

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Oncologists will be able to take a single tumor cell from a cancer patient and determine within minutes or hours which aberrant genes are responsible for the cancer's growth, allowing them to customize therapy to the patient's particular genetic quirks, rather than having to guess which drugs might work best.

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Until recently, discussion about British Islam reflected an assumption shared by the government and its Muslim interlocutors: that extremism was alien to most British Muslims, and squeezing it out was a simple matter of finding the right words to explain that violent behaviour was an aberrant reading of Islam.

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To a degree that surprised me, they liked to quiz me about text-book-aberrant behavior and about my unhappy childhood, thinking, once they heard the stories, that this was the way to my heart.

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