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for various software packages, such as the whiskers extending to at most the

5th and 95th (or some more extreme) percentiles. Not only do they not conform to

[[Tukey's|John Tukey|Tukey's]] original definition. They also tend to produce

"outliers" for all data sets larger than ten, no matter what the shape

of the distribution.