2025.07.28 13:02:49 (Mastodon 114930992399798339, Twitter 1949817842896867696) from Daniel J. Bernstein:
A standard argument to use medians is that averages aren't robust against occasional corrupted measurements. Unfortunately, for some distributions, medians aren't even stable, let alone robust. Interquartile means fix that. Analogous fix for quartiles: https://cr.yp.to/papers.html#rsrst