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Median vs. Mean
Median
Examples:
The median score on the test was 75 out of 100.A median salary for teachers varies by state.Locate the median point to divide the data evenly.
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Mean
/miːn/Examples:
What does this word mean?She didn't mean to hurt his feelings.
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This word has no antonymsWays to tell them apart:
- Mean is often referred to as the average, think of it as the sum of numbers divided by their count.
- Median is the middle value in a list of numbers sorted in ascending order to find it.
- Mean can be heavily impacted by outliers, while median is not.
- For a normal distribution, mean and median may be close or the same, but in skewed distributions, they aren't.
- Median splits the dataset into two equal parts, whereas mean sums up data and shares evenly.
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