WAEC Economics 2015 Objective — Question 5
Question 5 of 50 from the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) Economics 2015 Objective paper, with the correct answer and a full explanation.
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A disadvantage of the mean as a measure of central tendency is that it
- A. is affected by extreme valuesCorrect
- B. can only be used for continuous data
- C. cannot be used to measure the qualities of a population
- D. cannot be determined in grouped data
Explanation
The mean is sensitive to (affected by) extreme values (outliers), which can distort it as a representative measure of central tendency.
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