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Summary of Continuous Data
Vishwadeep Khatri posted a question in We ask and you answer! The best answer wins!
Q 733. When summarizing continuous data it is important to report both measure of central tendency (such as mean or median) and measure of dispersion (such as standard deviation or interquartile range). Still organizations, teams and people often emphasize and only report the measure of central tendency and ignore the measure of dispersion. What are the reasons for ignoring the measure of dispersion? How can this adversely impact decision making? Provide examples to support your answer. Note for website visitors - This platform hosts two weekly questions, one on Tuesday and the other on Friday. All previous questions can be found here: https://www.benchmarksixsigma.com/forum/lean-six-sigma-business-excellence-questions/. To participate in the current question, please visit the forum homepage at https://www.benchmarksixsigma.com/forum/. The question will be open until Tuesday or Friday at 5 PM Indian Standard Time, depending on the launch day. Responses will not be visible until they are reviewed, and only non-plagiarised answers with less than 5-10% plagiarism will be approved. If you are unsure about plagiarism, please check your answer using a plagiarism checker tool such as https://smallseotools.com/plagiarism-checker/ before submitting. All correct answers shall be published, and the top-rated answer will be displayed first. The author will receive an honourable mention in our Business Excellence dictionary at https://www.benchmarksixsigma.com/forum/business-excellence-dictionary-glossary/ along with the related term. Some people seem to be using AI platforms to find forum answers. This is a risky approach as AI responses are error-prone because our questions are application-oriented (they are never straightforward). Have a look at this funny example - https://www.benchmarksixsigma.com/forum/topic/39458-using-ai-to-respond-to-forum-questions/ We also use an AI content detector at https://quillbot.com/ai-content-detector. Only answers with less than 45-50% AI-generated content will be approved.- 6 replies
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