SOC 201 Chapter 5: SOC 201 Chapter : Chapter 5.11
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The data shown in figures 5. 3 and 5. 4 is from a recent survey of college students. Each figure shows the average credit card debt of u. s. college students. Figure 5. 3 shows the mean credit card debt and figure 5. 4 shows the median credit card debt. Suppose you conduct research to determine how many times a day people in a work group send personal e-mails during the workday. As you no doubt know, to calculate a mean you simply add up all the values and divide the result by the number of cases. There are nine people in the group, so you have nine cases. The median is simply the number in the middle so that half the numbers in the set are above and half are below. The mode is the number that occurs most frequently in the set of numbers.
