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.
When to use the median. The median is a good measure of the average value when the data include exceptionally high or low values because these have little influence on the outcome. The median is the most suitable measure of average for data classified on an ordinal scale. The median is also easy to calculate but this does not imply that it is an inferior measure to the mean â what is important is to use an appropriate measure to determine the average.