What would be a good central-tendency algorithm for this?

Question

What algorithm would be good for this?

I have a list of tickets and there is an assigned priority from 1-5, 1 being the lowest and 5 the most important. Arithmetic mean wouldn't do me any good because if a ticket of high priority cancels out a lower one. Mode wouldn't have enough sampling. Median same problem. What would you guys suggest?

Edit I'm trying to find a nice(reasonable) score to report the problems for a given set of tickets.

Answer 1

A simple bar chart would be the best way to represent your data here (with assigned priority on the x-axis, and the y-axis representing the number of tickets for each priority). This presentation would pass the inter-ocular percussion test (a.k.a. "it hits you right between the eyes").