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-21.8 is smaller than 21.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- It depends what you mean by "smaller". If you mean "less than" (ie more negative or less positive): -21.8 is less than 21.2 If you mean "closer to zero"; 21.2 is closer to 0 than -21.8
Add an observation that is bigger than the mean or remove an observation that is smaller than the mean.
Half-pint, smaller than others.
It is a value such that a quarter of the observations are smaller than it and three quarters are larger.
In the same way that you calculate mean and median that are greater than the standard deviation!