A University Dean Is Interested in Measuring the Research Productivity

question 292

Multiple Choice

A university dean is interested in measuring the research productivity of the seven members of the Psychology Department.The dean obtains the number of publications for each faculty member.They are as follows: 5,10,15,15,20,25,and 180.If the dean wants to describe these data,which measure of central tendency would paint a misleading picture of the research productivity of the department?

• A)the mean
• B)the median
• C)the mode
• D)the standard deviation

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