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Yes but:

1. If data is multimodal (wiggly line), the median isn’t a great measure of central tendency either.

2. Perfectly normally distributed data will have the same mean and median.

I agree people have jumped on this as evidence the guy doesn’t understand when he probably does, but what he says is a long way from the truth.




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