Callie's data set regarding the working conditions and stress levels of domestic workers contains housing expenses. The average is surprisingly low, but then she realizes that many workers are live-in employees and report zero housing expense. A more useful measure of central tendency that would not be as impacted by these extreme, outlying scores would be the ____.

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The median is a better measure of central tendency in this case because it is not affected by extreme values or outliers, such as the zero housing expenses reported by live-in employees.

Callie's Data Set Regarding the Working Conditions and Stress Levels