Responses to a Survey Question About Eye Color Are Coded

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Essay

Responses to a survey question about eye color are coded as 1 (for brown), 2 (for blue), 3 (for green), 4 (for hazel), and 5 (for any other color). Does it make sense to find the mean, median, or mode of the coded eye colors?

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