To answer the question of 'are gorals more dispersed than serows?', which of the following measures should be used?
A) mean centre
B) median centre
C) standard distance
D) linear directional mean

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The measure that would be most relevant to answering this question is the standard distance. This measure calculates the average distance of each point in a dataset to the dataset's centroid (i.e. the mean of all the points). If the standard distance for gorals is larger than the standard distance for serows, then it could be concluded that gorals are more dispersed than serows. The other measures listed (mean centre, median centre, linear directional mean) would not provide information on the dispersion of the two species.

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