How does an outlier affect the mode of a data set?

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Salamander
May 30, 2018

It wouldn't really affect the mode, but it would affect the median

Explanation:

Mode is the number that occurs most often, so an outlier wouldn't really have any impact because there is no equation involved. A median, however, is the average amount in a set of data, and in that case an outlier would affect the data, because it would cause the results to be significantly higher or lower than the average if it was all the numbers except the outlier.

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