1. In your own words, explain why the median is a better measure of central tendency than the mean for distributions that contain extreme scores.
2. For each of the data sets below, calculate the mean, median, and mode.
a. 1, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 7
b. 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 7
c. 1, 2, 3, 2, 2, 5, 7, 7, 7, 2, 7, 2, 7, 7, 2