Editing Gustav Fechner (section)

=== The median ===
In his ''Vorschule der Aesthetik'' (1876) he used the method of extreme ranks for subjective judgements. Two years later he published a paper which developed the notion of the [[median]] and is generally credited with introducing the median into the formal analysis of data.<ref name="keynesProb">Keynes, John Maynard; ''A Treatise on Probability'' (1921), Pt II Ch XVII §5 (p 201).</ref> He later explored [[experimental aesthetics]] and attempted to determine the shapes and dimensions of aesthetically pleasing objects, using as a database the sizes of paintings.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://statprob.com/encyclopedia/gustavtheodorfechner.html |title=Gustav Theodor Fechner |author=Michael Heidelberger |publisher=/statprob.com |access-date=5 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304053646/http://statprob.com/encyclopedia/gustavtheodorfechner.html |archive-date=4 March 2016 }}</ref>