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 I'm new to data science and stats, so this might seems like a beginner question.   I'm working on a dataset where I've user's Twitter followers gain per day. I want to measure the average growth he had over a period of time, which I did by finding the mean of growth. But someone is suggesting me to use median for this.   Can anyone explains, in which use-case we should use mean and when to use median?      
 
         
             
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         Mukul Jain Mukul Jain 
         
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