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Unit 1 – Scientific Foundations of Psychology
Topic 1.5
Why might the mean not accurately represent data distribution in psychological studies?
Mean values do not consider range of scores.
Standard deviation is always more accurate than mean.
Outliers can significantly skew the mean value.
Mean cannot be calculated for large datasets.
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