The median is the middle value in a distribution, so half of the scores fall above it and half fall below it. It is not affected by extreme scores, unlike the mean. The mode is the score that occurs most frequently. The range, not the median, is the difference between the largest and smallest scores.

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The Median Is

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The median is

A) the score that falls exactly in the center of a distribution.
B) the arithmetic average of the scores in a distribution.
C) the score that occurs most frequently in a distribution.
D) the difference between the largest and the smallest scores in a distribution.

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