psyc 3039 central tendency assignment identifying central tendency
Ms. Grunfeld teaches an eclectic art class. Her style is to target her course to the abilities of children of various ages, and she invites interested parents to enroll their children in her course. A psychology student wanted to study her class. The student first wanted to understand the ages of those in the class. Ms. Grunfeld is 42 years old. The student interviewed parents about their children’s ages. She listed the ages of the students, which can be seen here.
First, organize the ages of class member is descending order. Then calculate the mean, mode and median of those in the class. Excel will have formulas, search for “how to calculate a mean with Excel”.
They are all measures of ‘central tendency’ and any can be the best measure for a particular measure.
Why do you think that it is important to examine these three statistics together?
Are there any outliers in the data?
Discuss the pros and cons of removing any data points (like the outlier).
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Use a spreadsheet (such as Excel or similar spreadsheets)
Upload Central Tendency Assignment – Write out your response to the Central Tendency assignment on the same spreadsheet as the data and upload it here. You can write text in the boxes in Excel and you can Merge several cells if you want a bigger blank place to write. There are many YouTube videos on how to use Excel. Just search for “How to (merge cells… or whatever you want) in Excel” and you will find lots of examples