METHODS OF DATA ANALYSIS
MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY
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Question
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Which measure of central tendency is greatly affected by extreme scores?
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Mode
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Median
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Mean
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none of these
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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: -Thus, it is concluded that Arithmetic mean is most affected by extreme scores.
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