A psychologist has collected some data on the number of friends that college students report they have. The data set follows: 6, 4, 3, 2, 7, 3, 8, 5. If the psychologist reports 3 as a measure of central tendency, which measure was used?
a. mode
b. mean
c. median
d. standard deviation
Answer: a.
Psychology
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