讨厌鬼 / The Unlikable One

Author: Dexin Kong
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3831-5725
Structured and refined with assistance from ChatGPT
AI Automatic Translation (Unreviewed)

Discussion

During school years, almost every class seemed to have one or two students everyone found “unlikable.”

Whenever something “bad” happened in class, it somehow ended up being associated with them: missing items, damaged belongings, or all kinds of strange little incidents.

Most of the time, people actually knew it probably was not them.

But nobody wanted to speak up for them, because doing so could easily get you labeled as being “on their side.”

As the author grew older, a realization slowly emerged:

perhaps they had not actually done anything wrong.

They were simply “different” from most people.

Years later, during university, the author happened to encounter a concept in statistics: “average.”

“Average values” usually imply:

• lower prediction costs
• more stable collaborative structures
• easier maintenance of order
• lower internal friction

Meanwhile, people who deviate from the “average” are often referred to as: “outliers.”

“Outliers” usually imply:

• higher uncertainty
• higher cognitive cost of understanding
• greater difficulty for systems to classify
• a higher likelihood of disrupting existing stability

As a result, any long-running “system” will instinctively begin to reject “outliers.”

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