Standard deviation felt like a personal insult. The Central Limit Theorem was a riddle written in a language he didn't speak.

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The arithmetic average (and when it can be misleadingly skewed by outliers). Median: The exact middle value of an ordered dataset. Mode: The value that appears most frequently.