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The measure of central tendency which we'll reject when the data contains some extreme values, is the median.


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The correct option is B

False


When the data contains some extremely low or high values, we normally reject the mean as a measure of central tendency. This is because the mean gets affected even with a single extreme value.
For example, lets take the sample data of four observations - 1, 3, 4, 50. The mean of this data is 29. We can see the value of the mean deviates too much from the observations. This is because the data contains extremely low values - 1, 3, 4 and the extremely high value - 50.


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