One relative weakness of the ______ as a measure of central tendency is that it ______.

A) mode; is affected by outliers
B) mean; is affected by outliers
C) mean; does not take into account all of the scores
D) median; is affected by outliers

Central Tendency

A statistical measure that identifies a single value as representative of an entire distribution of data.

Outliers

Observations in a dataset that are significantly distant from the other observations, potentially indicating a measurement error or a different population.