The data gives the responses of 15 students who were asked how many text messages they send in a day.

(2, 50, 50, 51, 51, 52, 53, 54, 54, 55, 55, 55, 56, 56, 57}

What is the best measure of the central tendency of the data?
mean
mode
median
range
interquartile range * WILL GIVE MEDAL IF CORRECT!!!!!!*

Question

The data gives the responses of 15 students who were asked how many text messages they send in a day.

(2, 50, 50, 51, 51, 52, 53, 54, 54, 55, 55, 55, 56, 56, 57}

What is the best measure of the central tendency of the data?
mean
mode
median
range
interquartile range                                                             * WILL GIVE MEDAL IF CORRECT!!!!!!*

directrix · Answer

The term "2" is an extreme score in that the other scores are all greater than 50.

The mean is sensitive for extreme scores.

The idea is to pick one of the options which best represents all the scores of the data set.

Median: 54
Mean: 50
Mode: 55

I would chose the median but you might want to get a second opinion.