For which one of the following distributions will the median be a better measure

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For which one of the following distributions will the median be a better measure of center than the mean?

Salary data for players in the National Basketball Association (NBA) where most of the players earn the league minimum and a few superstars earn very high salaries in comparison.

Repeated weight measurements of the same 1.6-ounce bag of Peanut M&Ms by students in a large chemistry class using a balance scale.

Height data from a large random sample of men.

Exam scores with a central peak around an average test score and a few students scoring lower than the average and a few scoring higher.

which one the right answer?

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right choice is

Salary data for players in the National Basketball Association (NBA) where most of the players earn the league minimum and a few superstars earn very high salaries in comparison.

In this case there are some outliers which already mentioned that there a a few superstars earn very high salaries in comparison of most of the playeres earn minimum and A median is not affected by outliers.

so in this case median would be a better measure of center than the mean.

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