Mean, Median, and Mode: Measures of Central Tendency: Crash Course Statistics #3
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...
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Hi I’m Adriene Hill, and welcome to Crash Course Statistics. In the last video we tried to make sense of ginormous numbers. And teeny-tiny numbers. Today we’re going to talk about less showy numbers. The numbers stuck in the middle. The averages. The medians. The modes. They may not seem as mind-blowing. Or all that flashy. But, turns out they are really, really important. Those middle numbers are often the ones that get ALL the press attention. Get tossed back in forth in political debate. And...they give us this little fun bit of trivia… What’s the average...or mean... number of feet people have? It’s not 2. Turns out the average number of feet people has is a little less than 2. Cause the average takes into account the small number of peopl...
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Hi I’m Adriene Hill, and welcome to Crash Course Statistics. In the last video we tried to make sense of ginormous numbers. And teeny-tiny numbers. Today we’re going to talk about less showy numbers. The numbers stuck in the middle. The averages. The medians. The modes. They may not seem as mind-blowing. Or all that flashy. But, turns out they are really, really important. Those middle numbers are often the ones that get ALL the press attention. Get tossed back in forth in political debate. And...they give us this little fun bit of trivia… What’s the average...or mean... number of feet people have? It’s not 2. Turns out the average number of feet people has is a little less than 2. Cause the average takes into account the small number of peopl...
