Optimism is currently more than one standard deviation beyond its historical average, meaning that this is an unusually high reading.

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It is also more than one standard deviation below the historical average of 30%, making this an unusually low reading.

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Rather it is just one standard deviation away from its average, making the current reading atypical, but not an outlier.

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