Explaining the median using a German game show.

This is a very brief example to spice up the measures of central tendency lecture.

There is a game show in Germany, and one of the rounds of the game show is performing a perfect median split on food. OF COURSE, IT IS A BAVARIAN HOT PRETZEL.

The "splitting championship" game is part of a larger video game. Here is the YouTube version and here is the Reddit version, with more deets on the game show.

To be clear, we aren't talking about eye-balling here. The median split is an exact split by weight. Just as a statistical median split is an exact splitting of a data set.

Here is a more exact screen grab: 

ALSO: Because I love a good internet rabbit hole, the Reddit source I found actually goes into detail about the German game show. Have fun.