Explain to someone who hasn’t read Gould’s piece what it teaches us about why it can be misleading (i.e., inappropriate) to use the mean to summarize a distribution if that distribution is skewed?

Reading Review Questions

1) What is the meaning of the title?

2) Why did Gould regard understanding the real significance of median as “life-giving”?

3) Explain to someone who hasn’t read Gould’s piece what it teaches us about why it can be misleading (i.e., inappropriate) to use the mean to summarize a distribution if that distribution is skewed? Provide specific evidence from Gould’s piece as supporting evidence.