A Central Question: The Impact of Shape and Outliers

Experience how shape and one extreme value can change the mean. The job of the mean is to convey what is typical. At what point, does the mean become misleading?

Controls

Keyboard: Left/Right jump ±1 to adjacent bin midpoint; Home → 0; End → 30.

Histogram

Histogram of 20 values with mean and median Bars have width 1 from 0 to 30 on the x axis. Y axis shows frequency ticks at 1 up to 6. Red solid line is mean. Yellow dot marks the moveable value on the x axis.

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