Medians not Means

The Police have said that the reason the average 111 response time has increased from 11 minutes to 15 minutes is because of one call which was never closed off, and wasn't actually urgent.

This problem could be solved by using the median, instead of the mean as the average. In the median is arguably more useful a measure. Medians don't get distorted by extremes at either end.

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