Question

Number of goals scored in one season at Whitmore College soccer games follows:

0, 0, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4

Which measure of variability—IQR or MAD— best describes the spread of the dataset

What’s the answer

Answer 1

[AI-generated answer — Bot GPT 3.5]

The IQR (Interquartile Range) would be the best measure of variability to describe the spread of the dataset because it focuses on the middle 50% of the data and is not as sensitive to extreme values as the MAD (Mean Absolute Deviation).