I work in the operating room where we have a wide variety of ages (and gender) for staff. I suppose this would be considered a convenience sampling because we are all the same members of the population (the OR) and this was easiest for me to collect data. I just grabbed the first 10 people in the breakroom. I understand that convenience sampling is not the best sampling, but in this case where my data is pulse rates, I believe it to be fine. My data is as follows- 90, 88, 94, 75, 66, 90, 92, 95, 84, 78. I determined my measures of central tendency to be: Mean (average)- 85.2 Median (middle value)- 89 Mode (most frequent)- 90 I understand that Mean is the most common and frequently used measure of central tendency because it uses all values in the data set to give you an average. If my data had a skewed distribution (lack of a pulse or tachycardia), the median would have been better than the mean because it isn't influenced by extremely large values. The standard deviation for my data is 9.425733099 The Standard deviation tells us how spread out the data is. I would consider this a low standard of deviation since my data is closely clustered around my mean and not largely dispersed over a wider range of values. I do not have any outliers in my data (all my data fall closely together) but I will say that since I'm unfamiliar with Excel, I did all the calculations by hand first. When dealing with ten pieces of data, it is easy to write a number incorrectly or even upload it onto Excel incorrectly. I had to double check the numbers several times. I would have had an outlier if I had written 29 bpm instead of 92. If I had had variations, I would have considered what activity they were doing when I took their pulse. Were they running to get local anesthetics because the surgeon forgot to order it prior to the case beginning? Were they napping in the breakroom because it gets very quiet in the breakroom at night? This data tells me that my colleagues have relatively normal heartrates and that there is not much variance amongst the data. On a side note, I'm very impressed with all that Excel can do and I realize I'm only scratching the surface. I just have to remember to use the = sign. References Chamberlain University. (2021). Week 3 Lesson: Measures of Central Tendency and Variation. Holmes, A., Illowsky, B., & Dean, S. (2017). Introductory business statistics. OpenStax. Twycross A, Shields L. (2004). Statistics made simple: Part 2 Standard deviation, variance and range. Pediatric Nursing. Retrieved from https://chamberlainuniversity.idm.oclc.org/login?qurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.proquest.com%2Fscholarly-journals%2Fstatistics-made-simple-part-2-standard-deviation%2Fdocview%2F218929280%2Fse-2%3Faccountid%3D147674 Do you agree or dis agree, why