I stand right in the middle of an ordered list of numbers, keeping balance between the high and the low. I am not calculated by adding and dividing, but I split the set into two equal halves. What statistical measure am I?
Median
The median is the middle value in a sorted sequence of numbers, dividing the upper half of the data set from the lower half.
About this riddle
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