Problems with the mode
The mode is a "quick and dirty" estimate of the central tendency, but it is not accurate enough for most scientific purposes, since it doesn't take all scores into account.
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Problems with the modeThe mode is a "quick and dirty" estimate of the central tendency, but it is not accurate enough for most scientific purposes, since it doesn't take all scores into account. | |
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| The score of a small and unrepresentative group of students could become the modal value, as shown in this distribution with a mode of 13. |