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Re:Too many people have peed in the pool by hodgesrm on Monday February 15, 2016 @02:37PM (#11105388)
Technically shouldn't you say "at least half of all people are at or below median"?

(Sorry, I just couldn't resist. It seemed apropos to the overall conversion. :)

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Re:Too many people have peed in the pool by Tiksi on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @12:16AM (#11108021)
>"at least half of all people are at or below median"

Take the median of

  1 2 5 5 5 5 8 9 11 23 58 46 48 37 28 67 39
Much less than half of the numbers are at or below the the median of 5.

(also median would be a bad way to get an average for this set.)

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