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Why look at median?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 10/17/2024

Sometimes the mean does not give the entire picture of how the data behaves. For example: {2, 2, 3, 15, 100}

The mean is 24, the median is 3. This shows that if you graph these numbers on a line, they will be grouped much more to the low end than near the mean. ■

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15y ago

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