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EPPP Psychology

Category - Research Methods and Statistics

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In statistics, there are three ways to measure the central tendency in a data set: median, mean, and mode. Which of the following refers to the mode?
  1. It is more useful for skewed distributions.
  2. It is less sensitive to extreme values than the mean.
  3. It is the most frequently occurring number.
  4. It is sensitive to extreme values and skewed distributions.
Explanation
Answer: C - The mode is the most frequently occurring number of a data set. There can be more than one mode; if 22 and 36 both occur an equal number of times (and more than any other number) they are both modes of that data set.
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