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Section 07 · 3 entries

Average & Median

Two different animals.

Three entries on two summaries of the same set of numbers — what each one answers, and what both of them discard.

A bank of screens in a dim room, a figure in silhouette
Fig. 1

The same two columns, lit differently. Nothing about the mechanism changed when the room became a screen.

Photo: Phil Desforges / Pexels

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