The Median Isn’t the Message by Stephen Jay Gould.

Reading Review Questions.

1) What is the meaning of the title?

2) Why did Gould regard understanding the real significance of median as “life-giving”?

3) Explain to someone who hasn’t read Gould’s piece what it teaches us about why it can be misleading  to use the mean to summarize a distribution if that distribution is skewed?

Provide specific evidence from Gould’s piece as supporting evidence.

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