In statistics, mean and median both provide an idea of where the “middle” of a
sample is.
The mean (or average) is the sum of all scores divided by the
number of scores. For instance the sum of individual ages of persons in a group
divided by the number of persons in the group, gives the average age.
The median is the number in a range of scores that falls
exactly in the middle so that 50% of the cases are above or below.
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The example below shows that mean and the median do not necessarily provide
the same result:
