noun.
Actions or behaviors that violate formal and informal cultural norms such as law and the discouragement from public nose-picking.
noun.
A person or thing that differs from the expected.
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noun.
a state or condition markedly different from the norm
noun.
deviate behavior
Word Usage
"Would that mean proportionality could only be achieved if 15% of the PCs were woman and 5% of those from that particular belief group (perhaps with a margin of acceptable deviance from the mean/median/mode – which average are we using by the way?)"