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When examining the central tendency of a probability distribution, under what circumstance
would you be indifferent to using the median vs the mean?
Solution
If distribution is symmetric, then mean and median would coincide, and we would be indifferent.
If distribution is skewed, or has outliers, we prefer median because it is not affected by extreme
values.

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