George collected achievement score data for each child from a middle school. He has their gender, age, teacher and score on the achievement measure as his data fields. George needs to calculate the central tendency of his variable achievement score. Which measure should he use?
A) median
B) mode
C) range
D) mean

Question

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The mean is the most appropriate measure of central tendency for achievement score data as it takes into account all the values in the dataset and can accurately represent the average score. The median and mode may not be as accurate as they only consider the middle or most frequent values respectively. The range is not a measure of central tendency but a measure of variability.

George Collected Achievement Score Data for Each Child from a Middle