> you would report 35 or 40? Generally I report the lower end because it more easily generalizes to different quantiles. > How about if I change the dataset a

> you would report 35 or 40? Generally I report the lower end because it more easily generalizes to different quantiles. > How about if I change the dataset a bit would you still report either 18 or 60 (again, asking without qualifications)? Yes. I don't see how answering 39 is any better in that case. > How would you respond to that? I would respond that you should look at the distribution. Reporting the median is particularly misleading in the case of bimodal distributions. I would try to explain that summary statistics are to be taken with caution, possibly showing a picture.