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A teacher wants to find the "average" score of a class that has few extreme high scoring students. Which measure of central tendency is most affected by these high scoring students?
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Mean
The mean uses every score in its calculation, so extreme high values pull it upward more than the median, which only depends on the middle value(s).
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