One of the weaknesses of the mean as a measure of central tendency is that:

a. there can be more than one mean in a distribution.
b. it produces a misleading result when a distribution is symmetrical.
c. it is less stable than the median.
d. it does not take into account the actual value of all scores in a distribution.


C

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