Crash Course: Statistics #4 - Measures of Central Tendency

Today we’re going to talk about measures of central tendency – those are the numbers that tend to hang out in the middle of our data: the mean, the median, and mode.

All of these numbers can be called “averages” and they’re the numbers we tend to see most often – whether it’s in politics when talking about polling or income equality to batting averages in baseball (and cricket) and Amazon reviews. Averages are everywhere so today we’re going to discuss how these measures differ, how their relationship with one another can tell us a lot about the underlying data, and how they are sometimes used to mislead.


Math Topics
Mean, Median, Mode
High School, College
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade, College

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