41) How can you think about the mean and median to remember the difference when looking at a histogram?
mean is the balancing point of histogram, median splits the area of the histogram in half.
42) What is the median?
the middlest number, it splits area in half (always in the POSITION (n+1)/2 )
43) What is mode?
The most common data value or category, the peak of a histogram
44) Why don't we always use the mean, we've been calculating it all of our life ?
It is not RESILIENT, it is impacted by skewness and outliers
45) When we say "the average teenager" are we talking about mean, median or mode?
When we say "the average teenager" are we talking about mean, median or mode?It depends, if we are talking height, it might be the mean, if we are talking about parental income, we'd probably use the median, if we were talking about music preference, we'd probably use the mode to talk about the average teenager.
47) How are mean, median and mode positioned in a skewed left histogram?
goes in that order from left to right → Mean-median-mode
48) How are mean, median and mode positioned in a skewed right histogram?
goes in the opposite order.. Mode-median-mean
49) What chases the tail in histogram?
The mean chases the tail