• Ragnor@feddit.dk
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    12 hours ago

    Well, it isn’t called “medium”. If I saw someone asking for the medium, I would assume that they mean “the median” instead.

    The median is the number that is right in the middle of the distribution, so if you have the data points: 1, 1, 1, 3, 14, 80, and 141, the median is 3.

    The mean/average is what you get if you add all the numbers together and divide that by the number of data points. For the above example the sum is 241, and divided by 7 that is approximately 34.3 .

    The mode that @Aussiemandeus mentions is the number that appears the most times, so that is 1.