Exam 3: Measures of Central Tendency

Income distributions almost always have a positive skew (since there are only a few very wealthy people).Therefore,the preferred measure of central tendency for this variable would be the

What is the median of the following set of eleven grades? 55 $\quad$ 60 $\quad$ 62 $\quad$ 67 $\quad$ 70 $\quad$ 72 $\quad$ 75 $\quad$ 76 $\quad$ 77 $\quad$ 85 $\quad$ 95

Which measure of central tendency is like "a fulcrum that exactly balances all of the scores?"

The three commonly used measures of central tendency (mode,median,and mean)

The median is the score of the middle case when the number of cases is

For ordinal level variables,the most appropriate measure of central tendency is generally

If the scores on a variable are 11,14,18,19,20,and 25,the median is

A distribution of income for a sample of 45 people that included the presidents of the five largest corporations in the United States and forty assembly line workers would be

What is the mean of the following scores? 13 $\quad$ 18 $\quad$ 23 $\quad$ 35 $\quad$ 41

The most appropriate measure of central tendency for gender would be the

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