Median Family, Mean Family
The median family has 2 children, the mean family has 1.9 (the last child partly cut off), and the median family has 1 mean child.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2022-01-01-median-family-mean-family/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
Children in the Median Family: 2 [two adults, two kids]
Children in the Mean Family: 1.9 [two adults, one kid and nine-tenths of another]
Mean Children in the Median Family: 1 (but she's SUPER mean) [one kid holding scissors]