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Cooldude101

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on: Aug 4, 2018
The measure of central tendency that gives the best indication of a typical score in the presence of a few extreme scores is the
 
  A) Median.
  B) Mode.
  C) Harmonic mean.
  D) Mean.

Question 2

The mean is appropriately used only with
 
  A) Large numbers of participants.
  B) Nominal data.
  C) Ordinal data.
  D) Score data.


peilian

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Reply #1 on: Aug 4, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: A

Answer to Question 2

Answer: D


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