Question

A team has twelve 15-year-old players and eight 16-year-old players. The coach of the team is 43 years old. Which measure of central tendency best represents the ages of the team, including the coach, and why?

Answer 1

you'd likely want to represent the set with a median rather than a mean. A mean would take into account the coach which is an outlier of the set. Median would not. Statistically speaking, you almost never use the mode of a data set. That leaves the median, which is less effected by skewed data or data sets with outliers