Question

A researcher is investigating the number of hours a given individual spends online on a given day during the current 2020 pandemic in the United States. She randomly selects 30 individuals and collects the following responses:

15 12 6.2 7 5.5 2 4 5 10 11 7 6 4 7 0
1 5 3.2 4 10 6 2 10 1.5 5.1 6.4 8 14 3 2

Required:
What calculation is preferred for the central tendency and spread if the distribution of values is skewed?

Answer 1

Median

Explanation:

Usually, in statistics when we have a skewed distribution, to calculate the central tendency and spread we usually calculate the median.

Thus, the calculations preferred in this case is median.