A university president asks her psychology department chair if the university has more male or more female undergraduate psychology majors. What measure of central tendency is she asking about?
A) mean
B) median
C) mode
D) range
Answer: C
Rationale: The mode is the category with the highest frequency (that is. the category with the most observations). In this example, the mode would be whichever category (male or female) had the highest frequency. Range is not a measure of central tendency.
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