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		X6MW3aQrZU5VKkz on Oct 25, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Much Developers Make Per City, and Tech Stacks... I hope you realise the distribution need not be symmetric for the average value to be in the middle.

e-dard on Oct 25, 2012 [–]

Yes, but elchief's point is obviously that if the data has a positive or negative skew, the median is going to be more helpful than the mean.

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