Fig. 1
Days to full closure of splinted excisional wounds in 9 mice under a hydrogel dressing (days)
Fig. 1. A dot strip of 9 mice (days to full wound closure) resting on a seesaw. It balances at 16.00 days, the balance point (mean); the middle mouse sits at 15.00 days (median). They run from 12 to 27 days.
- Balance point (mean)
- 16 days
- Middle value (median)
- 15 days
- From smallest to largest
- 12 to 27 days
Distribution Lab · First look
Level 1 · First look · Foundations (ext)
Pick a typical value and say how spread out the values are, by eye.
Find a typical value (mean or middle value) and describe spread by eye, and see why one extreme value moves the mean but not the median.
ext A Foundations primer: written for beginners, not from the slides.
Typical value (the step you are on)
A family's shoe sizes cluster around one size; most mice heal in about two weeks.
Like a family’s shoe sizes, the healing times bunch around one value: most of these 9 mice closed their wounds in about two weeks, and the middle one took 15 days.