There's a wonderful (and heartbreaking) essay, "The Median is not the Message" by Stephen Jay Gould about cancer survival statistics. It expresses some of those

There's a wonderful (and heartbreaking) essay, "The Median is not the Message" by Stephen Jay Gould about cancer survival statistics. It expresses some of those points beautifully. https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0003ms https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=...