The topic for this week's forum is outliers and their effects. Exercises 8, 11, 26, and 27 address outliers and how they can affect measures of central tendency. See below for a frequency distribution of the number of felonies from a sample of veterans. This sample consisted of veterans who all had a history of at least one felony. Note the outlier and imagine how the measures of central tendency would change without it. Frequency Distribution of the Variable "Number of Felonies" 50- Mean = 2.92 Std. Dev. = 2.462 N = 158 40- 30- Frequency 20- 10- 10 15 20 25 Number of Felonies