Question

Outliers can cause the _________ to be misleading when summarizing a data set.

A. all of these

B. interquartile range

C. median

D. mean

Answer 1

Hello!

An outlier can cause the mean to be misleading. If you have an outlier when finding the median or IQR, it will not throw off the data by much. But adding a very large or small number to the mean, and dividing it by an extra number, it will throw the number off by a large amount.

I hope this helps!