Median is the BEST summary statistic when:
AData is symmetric
BData has outliers/skew that would distort the meanCORRECT
CData is constant
DSample is huge
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Why the answer is B, and why the others tempt you.
Median is robust to outliers and skew, so it's preferred for skewed distributions.
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