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Mathematically and practically, in what specific dataset distributions or business situations would you choose to optimize for the mean rather than the median?

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Interview question asked to Data Scientists interviewing at Atlassian, Nuro, Improbable and other companies. Original question asked: Mathematically and practically, in what specific dataset distributions or business situations would you choose to optimize for the mean rather than the median?.