Means vs. Medians

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• Format Videos
• Language/s English
• Target Audience Further education, Self-directed learning
• EBM Stage 3 - Appraising evidence
• Duration <5 mins
• Difficulty Introductory

Key Concepts addressed

• 2-3c Average measures of effects can be misleading

Details

Keith Bower’s 3-min video explaining how means (averages) and medians can be presented misleadingly, discussing the impact of non-symmetry on estimates of ‘center’.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-661GG9tppU