Detecting outliers: Do not use standard deviation around the mean, use absolute deviation around the median

Reference

Christophe Leys, Christophe Ley, Olivier Klein, Philippe Bernard, Laurent Licata “Detecting outliers: Do not use standard deviation around the mean, use absolute deviation around the median” (2013) DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2013.03.013

@Article{leys2013,
  title = {Detecting outliers: Do not use standard deviation around the mean, use absolute deviation around the median},
  volume = {49},
  issn = {0022-1031},
  url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2013.03.013},
  doi = {10.1016/j.jesp.2013.03.013},
  number = {4},
  journal = {Journal of Experimental Social Psychology},
  publisher = {Elsevier BV},
  author = {Leys, Christophe and Ley, Christophe and Klein, Olivier and Bernard, Philippe and Licata, Laurent},
  year = {2013},
  month = {jul},
  pages = {764–766}
}