RESEARCH METHODS THINKING CRITICALLY WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND DESCRIPTION
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Question
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Which statistical measure of central tendency is most affected by extreme scores?
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Mean
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Median
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Mode
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Skew
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Arithmetic mean takes into account the value of all items (i.e. very large and very small) in a series. Thus, it is only arithmetic mean which is affected by extreme values in the series.
Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: Of all the location measure, the mean is one of the descriptive statistics that gets greatly affected by the presence of extreme scores in the data.
Detailed explanation-3: -Answer and Explanation: Option A is the solution since the mean involves every point in the data set in its calculation, it becomes the measure of central tendency most susceptible to outliers or extreme values.
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