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.
Popular Answers. Mean and median are often presented both as descriptive statistics, but this is actally not the case. The median is a central value of the data. It is that value for which one expects half of the (possible or observed) values being smaller and the other half being larger. It is more a coincidence that the mean also is (often, but nor always!) quite in the center of the data, but its derivation is completely different.