Which statement, made by a student researcher, reveals understanding of the median value in a group of exam scores?
1. It is the average of the scores.
2. It is the most frequent score.
3. It is not influenced by extremely high or low scores.
4. It is the most stable measure of central tendency for interval data.
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Rationale 1: This is the mean.
Rationale 2: This is the mode.
Rationale 3: This is a characteristic of the median in a set of scores.
Rationale 4: This is the mean.
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