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> I expect someone could come up with a more sensible one.

- Imagine you hand out a survey where some answers are on a likert scale. "strongly dislike" is worse than "dislike", which is worse than "neutral" and so on.

- The median ranking over a set of ranking on different criteria.

- When the domain is not the real numbers. "The median employee of this company has 1.5 kids".



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