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There is only 1 middle value.

If there are an odd number of elements in the data set, the median is the middle one;

Otherwise there are an even number of elements in the data set and the median is the mean average of the middle two (add them together and divide by 2).

The median value can occur more than once in the data set, eg in {2, 5, 5, 5, 6, 7} the median is 5 ((5 + 5)/2 = 5) with a frequency of 3, but it is still only one value.

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