Exam 3: Measures of Central Tendency

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For variables measured at the interval-ratio level, the preferred measure of central tendency would be the

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In a ranked list of 25 scores, the median is the score of

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The purpose of measures of central tendency is to describe what value of a distribution of scores is

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

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

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The expression Σ\Sigma (Xi) directs us to find the

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

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The three commonly used measures of central tendency are

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

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In any distribution, the mean and the median will have the same value when the distribution is

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

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If you subtracted the mean from each score in a distribution, squared the differences, and then added the squared differences, the sum would be

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The median defines "central tendency" in terms of the

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

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If a distribution of test scores has a mean of 70 and a median of 80, the distribution has

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The mode measures "central tendency" in terms of the most

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When interval-ratio data are badly skewed, the appropriate measure of central tendency is the

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The most appropriate measure of central tendency for the variable age (measured in years) would be the

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The symbol X10 identifies

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

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