Median

Median is a little bit different. The way you compute the median of the dataset is by sorting all the values (in either ascending or descending order), and taking the one that ends up in the middle.

So, for example, let's use the same dataset of children in my neighborhood

0, 2, 3, 2, 1, 0, 0, 2, 0

I would sort it numerically, and I can take the number that's slap dab in the middle of the data, which turns out to be 1.

0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3

Again, all I do is take the data, sort it numerically, and take the center point.

If you have an even number of data points, then the median might actually fall in between two data points. It wouldn't be clear which one is actually the middle. In that case, all you do is, take the average of the two that do fall in the middle and consider that number as the median.
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