Question

Each measure of the "middle" (the mean, the mode, and the median) has its strengths and weaknesses. In 75-150 words, use everyday examples from work or home to identify cases where 2 of these measures would be good or bad.

Answer 1

Answer:-

The mean uses every value in the data and hence is a good representative of the data. The irony in this is that most of the times this value never appears in the raw data. The important disadvantage of mean is that it is sensitive to extreme values/outliers, especially when the sample size is small.

Very big and very small values don't affect the median but it takes a long time to calculate the median for a very large set of data.

The mode is the only average we can use when the data is not numerical. The disadvantages of mode are

There may be more than one mode
There may be no mode at all if none of the data is the same
It may not accurately represent the data