Purpose: It is important to link the skills you are learning as a budding psychological statistician to statistics "in the real world." By doing so through this discussion post, you will develop a deeper understanding of important concepts in descriptive statistics, including measures of central tendency.

Post: Locate a popular article (e.g., news, magazine, website) that discusses the results of a measure of central tendency (most likely candidates are average/mean and median). Using your chosen article, answer the following questions:

• Describe the data set being discussed by identifying the population, sample, parameter, variable, statistic, and data. (Note if a characteristic about the data is not available or discussed, then hypothesize about what it could have been given the information you do have.)
• Which measure of central tendency was chosen?
• What guidelines should have helped guide the selection of the measure of central tendency? To the best of your ability, describe the degree to which we can assume these guidelines are being met.
• What is the point being made by discussing this measure of central tendency? Do you think this statistic is being interpreted appropriately, or do you suspect bias in its interpretation or reportage?