What Is a Major Disadvantage of Just Reporting the Mean,median,and

question 8

Multiple Choice

What is a major disadvantage of just reporting the mean,median,and mode of a data set?

• A) All these values are subjective and open to interpretation by the person making the calculations.
• B) None of these values tell how widely dispersed the data are around it.
• C) The information provided by the mean, median, and mode are not related to each other.
• D) The values do not indicate why the data were collected.

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