Why Mean And Median Are Not The Same. In statistics the average and the median are two different representations of the center of a data set and can often give two very different stories about the data especially when the data set contains outliers. The median value of 2 4 6 8 10 is 6.
Using the numbers 2 4 6 8 10. Thus the mean and the median are not the same. My reasoning is as follows.
The mean median and mode will shift to the left but the range and IQR will stay the same.
Also when there is extreme values mean is not preferred. The median value of 2 4 6 8 10 is 6. The average of 2 and 12 is 7 which also happens to be the average of this set sum is 35 5 numbers average 7. In a symmetrical distribution that has two modes bimodal the two modes would be different from the mean and median.
