Descriptive Statistics Fundamentals · Quiz

Data Analytics: Foundations to Practice · Module Test: Descriptive Statistics Fundamentals

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Why is the median generally preferred over the mean when reporting typical household income?

The median is always easier to calculate than the meanThe median resists distortion from a small number of extremely high incomes better than the mean doesThe mean cannot be calculated for numeric data like incomeIncome data is always categorical, not quantitative