Question

Give me your opinion? Talking about mean, median, mode, and range...
why you think it will difficult for a person to accept the result when finding the mean of a set of data?

Answer 1

cuzz they prefer other statistical data.

Maye they perefer the median, mode or STD

Answer 2

Nobody prefers STD.

Answer 3

C'mon guys

Answer 4

Right now we are talking about mean other kinds of average don't count.

Answer 5

Low sample size, perhaps. Significant outliers, maybe.

Answer 6

Thanks smooth :)

Answer 7

My pleasure =D

Answer 8

Smooth can you give me a significant outlier example?

Answer 9

yeah.. especially low sample numbers.

Answer 10

What if I wanted to figure out the average speed of cars on a certain road and we took the data and got this:
25, 28, 23, 30, 20, 35, 25, 27, 29, 70

70 is ridiculously different from the rest of the numbers. It's an outlier.

Answer 11

awesome, what about low sample size?

Answer 12

think about it this way.. i take the average of only two people and say that's the average height form a bigger population... is that a good way to describe the population?

Answer 13

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Answer 14

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Answer 15

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Answer 16

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Answer 17

Thanks dpalnc. @Pedrojonson please use another post to release you frustation about other people.

Answer 18

kk cuz he will give u bad anser

Answer 19

well then give the right answer. Go ahead!

Answer 20

What about higher values balancing against the lower values?

Answer 21

Really depends on the circumstances.

Answer 22

why you say that? give and example in which that would not be the case.