On Friday 12 Sep 2003 12:01 am, you wrote:

>
> I thought the mean is when you take a group of numbers and discard the ones
> that are very high and very low, and then average the remaining.  That is
> median?

The mean is the average i.e. the sum divided by the number of numbers.

The median is the number which has as many values above it as below it.

>
> Anyway, that is what I want to do, is to discard the very high and very low
> numbers and average the numbers that fall in the middle.

Why?

Ian

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