On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 at 15:28, Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Sorry, you were talking about mean absolute deviation; that does work > here. Yes, I meant mean, not median. But the confusion is my fault - I wrote MAD and then to "explain" that, I put "median" in my own email - so you read it right the first time, and it was just me being sloppy and confusing things. They are both called MAD in their own contexts, and they are much too easy to confuse. My bad, Linus