Indicate at least two situations in your current work (or the job you would do after your
graduation) in which you would use a measure of central tendency to communicate with others.
What measure would you use and why? Make sure to provide enough detail about the situations
so that others can understand your responses.
Solution
Hi!
Here are some examples of practical usage of different measures of central tendency. Let\'s
suppose you are contracted to do analysis for a law enforcement agency (that\'s your job):
You might analyze the average minutes required to complete a jail intake booking or the average
number of 911 calls answered per officer shift. This measure of central tendency (the arithmetic
mean) uses the actual value of each case. But, it is sensitive to extreme cases on either end of the
distribution.
Alternatively, you may analyze the median minutes required to complete a jail booking or the
90th percentile response time to call for service. The median, another measure of central
tendency, is not sensitive to extreme values.
I hope this helps! Please don\'t forget to rate : ).
Indicate at least two situations in your current work (or the job yo.pdf
1. Indicate at least two situations in your current work (or the job you would do after your
graduation) in which you would use a measure of central tendency to communicate with others.
What measure would you use and why? Make sure to provide enough detail about the situations
so that others can understand your responses.
Solution
Hi!
Here are some examples of practical usage of different measures of central tendency. Let's
suppose you are contracted to do analysis for a law enforcement agency (that's your job):
You might analyze the average minutes required to complete a jail intake booking or the average
number of 911 calls answered per officer shift. This measure of central tendency (the arithmetic
mean) uses the actual value of each case. But, it is sensitive to extreme cases on either end of the
distribution.
Alternatively, you may analyze the median minutes required to complete a jail booking or the
90th percentile response time to call for service. The median, another measure of central
tendency, is not sensitive to extreme values.
I hope this helps! Please don't forget to rate : )
