Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.

Statement I:If there are a few extreme scores, the mode will be the most appropriate measure of central tendency.

Statement II:Mean deviation is the most sophisticated measure of dispersion of a distribution.

ABoth Statement I and Statement II are true

BBoth Statement I and Statement II are false ✓ Correct

CStatement I is true but Statement II is false

DStatement I is false but Statement II is true

Correct answer: (B) Both Statement I and Statement II are false

Explanation

Both statements are false.

With a few extreme scores the best measure of central tendency is the median, not the mode.

The median resists distortion by outliers, unlike the mean or mode here.

The most sophisticated measure of dispersion is the standard deviation, not the mean deviation.

Standard deviation uses squared deviations and underlies most inferential statistics.

The mode is the most appropriate average only for nominal, categorical data.

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