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sarasara · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Under what circumstances is the median likely to produce a better measure of central tendency than the mean?

a. With a symmetrical distribution
b. With an extremely skewed distribution
c. When the data consist of nominal measurements
d. When the data are numerical scores from an interval or a ratio scale

Question 2

A researcher is measuring the amount of time needed to solve a set of anagrams for a sample of n = 15 students. However, one of the participants fails to solve the problems so the researcher has an undetermined score. What is the best measure of central tendency for these data?

a. The mean
b. The median
c. The mode
d. Central tendency cannot be determined for these data