Measures Of Central Tendency Flashcards
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of the mean?
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It’s good because it uses all the scores, but it gets skewed when there are extreme values and makes the mean unrealistic
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What is a measure of central tendency?
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The average
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of the median?
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Less accurate than mean as it doesn’t use all the scores, but it doesn’t get skewed by extreme values
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of the mode?
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Less accurate than mean as it doesn’t use all the scores, but it doesn’t get skewed by extreme values. It’s useless when loads of scores occur most frequently
