Card 111 / 153: Measures of central tendency are used to summarize data. A counseling researcher wants to use a measure of central tendency which reacts to every score in the distribution. He will thus
A) use the median, or middle score when the data are ranked from lowest to highest. The median divides the distribution in half since half the scores will fall above the median, while half the scores will fall below the median
B) use the mode, which is the most frequently occurring score or categor
C) use the mean, which has been termed the arithmetic average.
D) use the median or the mode.

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