Note that examples are sorted only for convenience.

Doc/library/statistics.rst

@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ tends to deviate from the typical or average values.
 Function details
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+Note: The functions do not require the data given to them to be sorted.
+However, for reading convenience, most of the examples show sorted sequences.
+
 .. function:: mean(data)
 
    Return the sample arithmetic mean of *data*, a sequence or iterator of