I need two examples. Here's one that doesn't count in case you are confused: Household income. The few extremely wealthy people would be dropped because that would skew the data of the average wealth of an American person. Now I need 2 more examples...
2006-09-05 15:02:10 · 3 answers · asked by bep 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
You really need to see the data, then you can decide which describes data best, mean, meadian, or mode.
2006-09-05 15:07:48 · answer #1 · answered by MollyMAM 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Home prices, specifically in a certain town. I looked in a town in CT. The median price was extremely skewed because there is a huge retirement villiage there. I looked at the median sales price and it skewed the results considerably.
2006-09-05 22:09:47 · answer #2 · answered by Chainsaw 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Grading a test--drop the high one if there is only one really high one.
Driving speed--the results may be skewed if you do the racer that went by at 130.
2006-09-05 22:08:56 · answer #3 · answered by Nelson_DeVon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋