Discussion Post: What's the Meaning Here?
From Research Methods and Data Analysis in Psychology
This interactive group discussion assignment is related (Salkind) material and your responses to the individual assignment # 5 that you just completed. You must have completed the individual assignment before you begin this discussion. This problem asks you to discuss your answers together. I know that there will be some overlap in answers, that is fine!
Post a comment in which you will include the following:
Tell me what would happen to the mean, median, and mode values that you calculated for the Individual problem if you added one player to the team whose points per game for the season was 25. You don't have to re-calculate anything, just tell me if the mean, median, and mode would go up, down, or stay the same. Explain why.
Give an example of variable for which the mean would not be appropriate to describe the data (that is, tell me a circumstance in which you would not want to use the mean to describe a dataset).