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Question
A friend of yours assigned a code of 1 to "male" and a code of 2 to "female" on the variable gender. Your friend asked the computer to compute the average score on gender. The computer printout contained the following information: mean = 1.38, standard deviation = .432, median = 1.4 and mode = 1.0. You advise your friend that the best measure of central tendency to report is the:a. mean
b. standard deviation
c. median
d. mode
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