Watch the video attached to learn more about the difference between a mean and a median as related to research statistics and what inferential statistics are and how they work.
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Jessie,
I think you did a great job, and I would like to add something more to Q78. The text refers to outliers, which can impact the mean. If a score is two standard deviations from the mean, it is considered an outlier. It could happen if the score was higher or lower. Our text example states that the median is probably a better measure of where the middle is because the outliers skewed the distribution of the mean.
Jessie,
I think you did a great job, and I would like to add something more to Q78. The text refers to outliers, which can impact the mean. If a score is two standard deviations from the mean, it is considered an outlier. It could happen if the score was higher or lower. Our text example states that the median is probably a better measure of where the middle is because the outliers skewed the distribution of the mean.