So in this case, using the median to test the mean shows that the two are close together, ... Finally, there's the mode the most common reading. In this example, that's also 4,800.

An animated guide to mean, median and mode which demonstrates that these different types of average can produce very different results. BBC Homepage Skip to content ...

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.

An animated guide to mean, median and mode. The Clappy Boys need to have the right average age to be accepted for a recording contract. This clip demonstrates that the different types of average ...