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.