The annual sunspot numbers are found for a recent sequence of 24 years. The data are sorted, then it is found that the mean is 81.09, the standard deviation is 50.69, the minimum is 8.6, the first quartile is 29.55, the median is 79.95, the third quartile is 123.3, and the maximum is 157.6. What potentially important characteristic of these annual sunspot numbers is lost when the data are replaced by the sorted values?