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    $\begingroup$ I like the principle. In the example given I don't think the position of the finger would work: the right tail is not long enough. Also, although many. many complications are possible it's not likely that mode, median, and mode are equally spaced for many distributions, even approximately. $\endgroup$
    – Nick Cox
    Commented Mar 3, 2020 at 12:30
  • $\begingroup$ @NickCox That's just an image I got from wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skewness), and despite being quite bad it's way better than most other images of a skewed distribution (online + copyright free). The important thing here is the principle, which remains true. $\endgroup$
    – Gerardo Furtado
    Commented Mar 4, 2020 at 2:55
  • $\begingroup$ The question asks for "graphics/gifs which anyone has that very clearly illustrate a statistics concept" and I don't buy "very clearly" in this case. $\endgroup$
    – Nick Cox
    Commented Mar 4, 2020 at 7:34
  • $\begingroup$ Your favourite software should let you draw e.g. an exponential with mean 1, median $\ln 2$ and mode 0, which would be one of many much better examples. $\endgroup$
    – Nick Cox
    Commented Mar 4, 2020 at 9:39