and the numbers involved.
One thing which would be important if you do use the median is also to report the range, maybe reporting the interquartile range to cut out outliers.
I say this, because the median is saying '50% of the results will be higher than this number, 50% will be lower.' As such 50 is the median of both {1,25,50,51,100} and {48,49,50,51,52}, "a median of 50" doesn't really tell you much about a range of data but these ranges could be quite accurately reconstructed from "a median of 50 and a range of 5" or "a median of 50 and a range of 100" for example.
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