What does it mean when we say that a distribution is skewed?
- All data points are identical
- It has outliers
- It is not symmetric about its mean
- Its mean and median are not equal
When we say that a distribution is skewed, we mean that the distribution is not symmetric about its mean. In a skewed distribution, the data points are not evenly distributed around the mean, with more data on one side of the mean than the other.
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