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Because it is less influenced by occasional numbers which are very far from the middle. For example, take the series: 1, 1, 10, 10 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 1099999 You would think that the 'middle' is about 10. The median is 10 but the mean is about 100000 !

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