The Measure of Central Tendency That Is MOST Sensitive to (Or

question 221

Multiple Choice

The measure of central tendency that is MOST sensitive to (or most influenced by) extreme scores in a distribution is the

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

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