Descriptive statistics are a way to interpret and present data. "Summary measures or summary statistics or descriptive statistics are used to summarize a set of observations, in order to communicate the largest amount of information as simply as possible" (Mishra). Descriptive statistics uses common values such as mean, median, mode, and standard deviation to present the data. Commonly, people mistake the median and mean, but there is a distinct difference between the two. The mean is the average. In the example of NFL passing yards, in order to find the mean you would add all of those numbers up, and divide by the amount of numbers there are. The median is the middle most observed number when the data set is arranged in increasing or decreasing order. I will create an example to better see how mean and median can differ: Ages of players on a soccer team 23, 27, 25, 23, 23, 26, 25, 31, 25, 32, 37, 24, 24, 34, 31 The mean of the ages is 27.3, while the median is 25