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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by a range like

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Bruno Mars you may want to be careful if is too hot which of the following does [Bruno Mars singing and flames appear from his face]

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not help us measure the spread of a set of data and here are the potential answers....

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All right hey data feel free to spread out make yourself

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comfortable well not that comfortable ..Anyway this problem gives

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us five options and wants to know which won't help us determine the spread of [Man spreading butter onto a piece of bread]

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data so one of them won't give us any indication of the highs and lows of a

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set of values and we want to nail the guilty party...Well let's take a look at [Graph with lots of data plots in an interrogation room]

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interquartile range first of all well the word itself should be a pretty good

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clue inter quartile ie this measurement will tell us something about about

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the values of between two quartiles in other words something about the spread anyone else [A restaurant in a and country crock appears]

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suddenly having a craving for Country Crock... Okay next up standard

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deviation while this tells us how widely the data is centered around the mean [Data circled around the mean]

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which again gives us an idea of the spread of data points so we'll deviate away

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from this one and keep looking option C is q1 and q3 otherwise known as the

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first and third quartiles, well knowing just one of the two wouldn't do much for [Woman and man asking who he is]

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us but as soon as we know the value of two distinct points we suddenly have

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a sense of how the data is being divi'd out meaning we can nix this one as well

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E; the range was probably the most obviously bad answer.. A range is clearly [Biker with the letter E on the front of his body]

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going to tell us something about the range of data values... That's its name

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range... We have to assume they weren't being tricky when they coined the term [Two men stood with a graph]

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otherwise it would be like naming a pet duck, Whiskers you have to be a real [Duck on the grass with a name label Whiskers]

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quack to do something like that so yeah it ain't range..Leaving us with answer

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D median; well yeah a median is only a single point the middle value of an

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entire set, it tells us nothing about the spread of data no more than the age of a [Children stood together on a front lawn]

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middle child tells us anything about the ages of his older and younger brothers

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although by looks of it, he's getting it from both sides. So D it is, now if you'll [boy kicked by older brother]

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excuse us we're going to run before that uptown funk gives it to us we're not

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sure what it is, but well we're positive we don't want to know...[Bruno Mars singing and a girl performing ballet]

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