When is it NOT appropriate to use the median as a measure of central tendency?

What will be an ideal response?


The median can be used with continuous and ordinal data; however, it cannot be used with nominal data because it requires that the variable under examination be rank orderable, which nominal variables are not.

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a. True b. False

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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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