Question: Which one of the following is NOT a measure of central tendency?
Options:
Mean deviation
Geometric mean
Median
Mode
✅Explanation:
Mean deviation is a measure of dispersion, not central tendency. It calculates the average absolute distance of each data point from the mean.
Mean deviation is a measure of dispersion, not central tendency. It calculates the average absolute distance of each data point from the mean.
📌Other Options Explanation:
-Geometric mean is a type of mean that indicates the central tendency of a set of numbers by using the product of their values (as opposed to the arithmetic mean which uses their sum).
-Median is the middle value in a dataset when arranged in order.
-Mode is the value that appears most frequently in a dataset.