Clearly the best approach is to directly answer the question at hand with the most relevant numbers/statistics available. I'm all for that. I'd argue you'd stil

Clearly the best approach is to directly answer the question at hand with the most relevant numbers/statistics available. I'm all for that. I'd argue you'd still want to use the mean more than the median, but it's not really important at that point because you're painting the most complete picture you can. There are times that, for whatever reason, someone is only presenting one statistic. News headlines are a big one. In this case, you clearly want to pick the "best" statistic available. There are people who think that the median is categorically better than the mean and dispense advice as such. (You can find them saying things like "the mean is worthless, the median would be much better" in the comments of discussion boards.) That's not what this article did, but the author did imply (in its title and language, if nothing else) that the median is better than the mean without offering any sort of weighing mechanism for which to choose. That's what I'm responding to, because it perpetuates the median > mean myth that's prevalent among certain groups of people.