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What are the 4-quantiles (the "quartiles") of this dataset? This is the proportion of confidence intervals (constructed with this same confidence level, sample size, etc.) So the first, second and third 4-quantiles (the "quartiles") of the dataset {3, 6, 7, 8, 8, 9, 10, 13, 15, 16, 20} are {7, 9, 15}. The connection is that the mean is the single estimate of a distribution that minimizes expected squared error while the median minimizes expected absolute error.