The median may be defined as ______.

A) the most common or frequently occurring score in a distribution
B) the average squared deviation of a score from the mean
C) the difference between the highest and lowest score in a set of data
D) the score that splits a distribution into two equal halves

Median

The middle value in a data set when the values are arranged in ascending or descending order.

Squared Deviation

Squared deviation refers to the squared differences between each data point in a dataset and the mean of that dataset.

Mathematical Average

Also known as the mean; a measure of central tendency calculated by adding all the numbers in a data set and dividing by the count of those numbers.