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That’ll be Why the Median is Barely Over 40 (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by alphanerd4@lemmy.world to c/usauthoritarianism@lemmy.world

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[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Massive skews and tails are why you use median.

[–] afk_strats@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Its median is tool for understanding data but it doesn't paint a complete picture and can't be representative without other context. For example, if you have a bimodal distribution, the median doesn't tell you much just how like the average doesn't tell you much. There are other examples like this.