mean
median
Mean (balance)
5
Median (middle)
5
Range (spread)
6
Five dots, sitting at
2, 4, 5, 6, 8
⟶ Fling the amber dot to the far right
↺ Reset
Drag any dot, but watch the
amber
one. Pull it far out to the right and the green triangle — the
mean
— comes chasing after it, while the dashed
median
line barely budges. That one stray dot is an
outlier
.