[gnaritas]

Median is an average, as is mean and mode. Saying median not the average makes no sense. You mean median not the mean. All three are different kinds of averages.

[moments]

I never realized that the median is an average... interesting. So any average can be dominated by extreme events, except the median average.

Then we are discussing averages, in general. So, the common misconception would be:

-Averages are dominated by the median, and deviation from the mean is symmetric.-