Are there any practical cases or a general rule about this?
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As an aside, this depends on how you define a "good estimator".
Most simply, the sample median is a good estimator of the population mean when the population mean and population median are equal. If the population mean and population median are different, then the sample median estimates the population median and will likely not do a good job of estimating the population mean.
For symmetric distributions, the population mean and population median are equal, so the sample median can be used to estimate the population mean. This will yield a more robust estimator compared to the sample mean.
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