Stuart_Armstrong comments on Median utility rather than mean? - Less Wrong Discussion
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Actually, there's no need for higher central moments. The mean absolute deviation around the mean (which I would have called the first absolute central moment) bounds the difference between mean and median, and is sharper than the standard deviation.