The median is the middle number in a sorted ascending or descending list. It can be more descriptive of the dataset than the average. It’s quite different from the mean.

Mean vs. median Readers provide a quick course in statistics. Much obliged! By Andrew Leonard. Published April 23, 2009 7:45PM (EDT) --Shares. Facebook. Twitter. Reddit. Email.

Comparing income growth per capita to median income growth is telling: What Does 'Economic Growth' Mean for Americans?, by Uwe E. Reinhardt, Economix: ...The third chart, below, exhibits the ...

First, you can calculate the mean. Let's say you have five FTSE 100 readings on consecutive days. They are 4,800, 4,900, 4,700, 4,800 and 5,100. The mean is the sum of the readings (24,300 ...

PESCA: The median is different from the mean. Mr. BLINDER: Oh yes, I didn't think we were allowed to say that on NPR, yes. (Soundbite of laughter) ...

If most of the houses sell for somewhere between $100,000 and $200,000, and there are a few multimillion dollar mega-mansions, the mean price of a house in the neighborhood might well be $500,000 ...

The main averages, which can also be referred to as measures of central tendency, are the mean, mode and median. Robert is preparing for his Mathematics GCSE exams. Each paper is marked out of 100.