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the unbothered middle child of statistics, immune to the drama of outliers
means The middle value in a sorted set of numbers — the point where half fall below and half above — or, on a road, the strip dividing opposing traffic.
from From the Latin 'medianus,' meaning 'in the middle,' built on 'medius' ('middle') — the same family that gives us 'median,' 'medium,' 'mediate,' and even 'mediterranean' (the sea 'in the middle of the land'). It entered English by way of mathematics and geometry, then later spread out onto highways to name that calm middle strip keeping the lanes apart.
- outlier-proof
- one billionaire can't budge it like the mean
- income truth
- why economists prefer it over average wages
- road meaning
- also the strip dividing opposing traffic
- even sets
- with no middle number, average the two centers
- latin root
- from medianus, meaning of the middle
for instance
median age japan — 48.7 years old in 2024, oldest median age in the world