Under What Conditions Is It Probably Better to Use the Median

question 198

Multiple Choice

Under what conditions is it probably better to use the median as a measure of central tendency than the mean?

• A) when the scores are normally distributed
• B) when the standard deviation is very small
• C) when the range of scores is not very great
• D) when there are some very extreme scores

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