Github user Wyatts commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/296
FWIW, [this
article](https://analyse-it.com/blog/2013/2/quantiles-percentiles-why-so-many-ways-to-calculate-them)
has two citations in favour of defaulting to what Wikipedia calls R-8 (though
it notes R defaults to R-7 for compatibility with S). That's a decent argument
for either of them, IMO.
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