True or false: The mode is universally an accurate representation of data sets because it captures the number that occurs most often.

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Moriah Roth

Mathematics

11 May, 17:04

True or false: The mode is universally an accurate representation of data sets because it captures the number that occurs most often.

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Joaquin Skinner · Answer 1

False

Step-by-step explanation:

Actually, the second side of the question is true. Yes, mode is the most frequent and often number captures the data set. But, it could not be said about the accurate and universal data sets representation. Because:

1) Sometimes mode might not be unique, it may have more than one so we will be stuck about choosing the best representation.

2) Or, if we have continuous data, we will have a lot of values so it will be tough to determine.

3) The problem of not being available to provide the very good measure of the central tendency. It happens, for instance, the mark mostly seen is very far from the rest of the data.