I actually don't, and you're reacting to the use of "averaging" as a verb. That's why I encouraged you to reread. When you're discarding 50% of the samples in a

I actually don't, and you're reacting to the use of "averaging" as a verb. That's why I encouraged you to reread. When you're discarding 50% of the samples in a 50th percentile median, I think "averaging" is an acceptable verb to proxy the situation in English since "medianing" isn't a word. I could have said "computing the median," but that's just tedious. Notice later in the comment I say average/median, implying that they are separate but related concepts. I think it's safe to assume that someone who can conversationally use the word "quantile" is not confusing median with mean. You're assuming that my (intentional) selection of a lower-fidelity term to describe a concept, which I carefully illustrated with ancillary points to give specificity to said concept, demonstrates a misunderstanding of the very field I'm explaining. That is pretty obviously wrong and a bit condescending. We agree, which is what's frustrating. You're just latching on to a pedantic correction of my point, and rather than belabor that correction I encouraged you to reread to see that we do actually agree. Now, I do see average latency far more often than I'd care to admit, which is why I got lazy and just said "average" at the end there once I started referring to generality instead of specificity, but I think it's pretty clear that I understand the distinction regardless.