One Relative Weakness of the ______ as a Measure of Central

question 117

Multiple Choice

One relative weakness of the ______ as a measure of central tendency is that it ______.

• A) median; is affected by outliers
• B) mode; is affected by outliers
• C) mean; isn't based on all of the scores in the distribution
• D) median; doesn't describe bimodal distributions

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Definitions:

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Imagery

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