An Advantage of the Interquartile Range as a Measure of Variability

question 15

Multiple Choice

An advantage of the interquartile range as a measure of variability is that it

• A) is not sensitive to extreme scores.
• B) takes all score values into consideration.
• C) only considers the highest and lowest scores in the distribution.
• D) is not influenced by the middle scores in the distribution.

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