👉 The median engineering, or the middle value in a dataset of engineering measurements, is the point that separates the lower half of the data from the upper half. In a perfectly symmetrical distribution, it's the average of the two middle values. However, in skewed distributions, the median is a more robust measure of central tendency because it's less affected by outliers or extreme values. For engineering data, which often contains such variations, the median provides a reliable representation of the "typical" measurement without being skewed by unusually high or low values. This makes it particularly useful in scenarios where data variability is significant, such as in structural analysis or material testing.
