The median is the preferred measure of central tendency when
A)the scale of measurement is nominal.
B)the scale of measurement is ordinal.
C)the scale of measurement is ratio.
D)the distribution is symmetrical and the scale of measurement is interval or ratio.

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The median is the preferred measure of central tendency when the scale of measurement is ordinal because it accurately represents the central point of a dataset that doesn't assume equal intervals between values, which is a characteristic of ordinal data.

The Median Is the Preferred Measure of Central Tendency When