Question

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

• A. mean
• B. median
• C. mode
• D. range

Answer 1

The correct option is A mean

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, let's 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.
The range isn't a measure of central tendency.