Under what circumstances can the mode of a data set be irrelevant or misleading?

  • When the data is continuous
  • When the data set is large
  • When the data set is small
  • When there are multiple modes
The mode can be misleading or irrelevant especially with continuous data. Since the mode is the most frequently occurring value, with continuous data the frequency of each value is often the same (i.e., 1), hence it becomes difficult to define a mode in a traditional sense.
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