11. Analysts may judge whether data has a strong or a weak central tendency based on its dispersion. 12. Notions of central tendency are often applicable at the item level-that is responses often show a quasi-normal distribution. 13. Similar reasoning has been applied to understanding the relation between people's ratings of social groups'central tendency and variability. 14. :As for the mode, those are probably situations where the mode is not an appropriate measure of central tendency . 15. Nobody looks at a random sequence of percentages and goes " oh-the central tendency is 35.7 % ! ". 16. As a result, the central tendency of a set of categorical variables is given by its median can be defined. 17. As Gary Fields of Cornell observed : " The Kuznets curve is neither a law nor even a central tendency . 18. Occasionally authors use central tendency to denote " the tendency of quantitative data to cluster around some central value ." 19. The central tendency of the governors'and presidents'predictions of C . P . I . inflation is 2 to 2 { percent. 20. But that requires that you have a good idea that such a central tendency " exists in the first place ".
