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Goal(s): Discover the impact of skewness and/or an outlier on the mean.
How: Modify the shape of the distribution and the location of a data point. The data point can be placed with the rest of the values or moved far beyond them.
Site: P2L.io
There are three measures of central tendency: the mean, median, and mode. When a distribution is skewed or there is an outlier, the median is typically reported. This is because the mean can be unduly dragged in the direction of the skewness and/or that of the outlier.
Demonstration