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A-LevelPsychologyResearch methods9990/21 · May/June 2019 · Q51 Mark

State one advantage of using the mean as a measure of central tendency.

  1. State one advantage of using the mean as a measure of central tendency.[1]

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  1. [1] 1 mark for the advantage.
  2. the mean takes all the data points into account;
  3. it is more representative than the median/mode;
  4. the median/mode ignore the effect of outliers;
  5. 'it works out the average' = 0 marks (description not advantage)

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Topic
Research methods, A-Level Psychology (syllabus 9990). Structured question, 1 mark.
Source
A-Level Psychology, May/June 2019 Paper 2 Variant 1, question 5.

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