Can you find the mean/median/mode of a yes or no question?

Question

Hey I was wondering if I can find mean to a yes or no survery question.

Like for instance my survey question: Do you love Cold weather?

Out of 30 Students
A. Yes: 17
B. No: 13

Would the median be the most students who love cold wx?

Answer 1

Sorry, folks, but there is no median and no mean, because the data set contains no numbers!

the data consists of 30 verbal answers. Imagine a sheet of paper with the answers recorded:

Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
.
.
.
etc

There is nothing to add up, so there is no mean
there is nothing to rank in order, so there is no median, no "middle" answer.

there IS a most frequent response, namely "Yes". So the mode is "Yes". (The mode is the most frequent data value, not the frequency of that value.)

If you gave numerical values to the responses, like "Yes" = 1 and "No" = 0, then you would have 17 1's and 13 0's, and the mean of those numbers would be 17/30, while the median would be 1. But of course, if you assign different numercial values, you get a different mean and median.

Answer 2

For a binary variable it is extremely common to code the outcomes as:
Yes = 1
No = 0

Then the mean = 17/30 = 0.5667 or 56.67 represents the proportion of respondents who answered "Yes".

The median is not terribly interesting. Here the median is one. It tells us that at least half the people gave an answer greater than or equal to one and half the people gave an answer less than or equal to one.

The mode is also not that interesting. The mode is also one. It tells us that "Yes" was the more common response.

Answer 3

I beleive that the most frequent answer would be the mode. But the mean and median don't apply to a yes or no question. Mean and median are both math concepts, one is the average answer, and one is the middle answer. You can't figure the weighted answer of "yes" and "no", and there is nothing in the middle to be the median.

I coudl be wrong, it's been a long time since my school days.

Answer 4

This question doesn't have the possibility of having a median.

Why?

Because when finding a median it requires you to use a number from the string provided. adding the given numbers and dividing by 2 only finds an average and generates a number that isn't in yrou string.

String=17,13 (requires at least 3 seperate numbers to carry a median)

Answer 5

The median would be 13+17= 30/2= 15 because you have topick the middle number. Since there isn't any, you have to take the avg

Answer 6

Only the mode which is the most frequent response can be determined here.

There would have to be an intimation of yes or no before the data can be construed to determine to which answer the numbers of student respondents are referring, in order to ascertain mean or median.

Answer 7

You can find the mode....that's just the most common answer, in this case "yes"

The mean and median don't really make sense in this context.

Answer 8

mean = 15
median = 15
mode = 17

good luck! =D

Answer 9

Yes Or No Survey Questions

Answer 10

Find The Mean