A College Dean Is Interested in Measuring the Research Productivity

Multiple Choice

A college dean is interested in measuring the research productivity of the seven members of the Psychology department.The dean obtains the number of publications for each faculty member.They are as follows: 5,10,15,15,20,25,and 180.If the dean wants to describe these data,which measure of central tendency would paint a misleading picture of the research productivity of the department?

A) the mean
B) the median
C) the mode
D) the standard deviation