Verbal Aggressiveness Scores

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¥ For how many students do you have Verbal Aggressiveness scores?
We have Verbal Aggressiveness scores for 59 students.

¥ What is the mean for the entire sample?
The mean for the entire sample is 44.0169.

¥ How do you interpret the mean score?
When we interpret the mean score, we should look at the minimum and the maximum scores, so we can see the mean are close to each one. In verbal aggressiveness, the minimum is 26 and the maximum is 65, which indicates that the mean around the middle of these scores.

¥ What are the other measures of central tendency (mode, median)?
The mode is 46.00.
The median is 42.00.

¥ Compare all measures of central tendency and what does this tell us about the distribution?
The mean is 44.0169. The mode is

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