The bottleneck mechanism occurs when the first stimulus is being processed, any other stimuli cannot be processed. The processing of the second stimulus is postponed which slows down reaction time. Neurons that take in information send this information to specific neural networks in different locations.
Sometimes the more telling statistic is the median, instead of the average â but in the age of average, it might take some effort to embrace the more accurate number.
In a previous post, I showed how the mean salary and median salary can be very different. The median is much better than the arithmetic mean for giving a âtypical' annual salary; median is the method that we favor in our PayScale salary survey. In fact, the median is better for characterizing âtypicalâ in almost any data set.