In: Advanced Math
tate, with an explanation, whether the mean, median, or mode gives the best description of the following average. The average number of times that people change jobs during their careers
The median is often a better representative of a typical
member
of a group. If you take all of the values in a list, and arrange
them in
increasing order the number at the center will be the median. The
median
is an actual value belonging to some member of the group -
depending on the distribution of values, the mean may not be
particularly close to the value of any member of the group; and the
mean is also subject to skew - as few as one value significantly
different from the rest of the group can dramatically change the
mean. The median gives you a central member of the
group without the skew factor introduced by outliers. If you have a
normal distribution, then the median value will be a typical member
of the population.
Now coming to your question
The average no of times that pepole change jobs during the careers
The median is the best because the distribution is probably right dash skewed with a single peak