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Elicit Student Thinking before Correcting
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PPM.189 Elicit Student Thinking before Correcting
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A data set has one very large outlier. A student chooses the mean to describe a typical value because the teacher said mean is average. Which response best elicits thinking?
A
Remove the outlier before finding the average.
B
The mean is not the best measure for this data set, using the displayed information, under the stated conditions.
C
Can you compare what the mean and median would tell someone about this data set with the outlier?
D
Use the median because the outlier affects the mean.
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