189. A critical situational public health survey reports that “the average income in this region is $X.” However, the income distribution is highly skewed. What is the urgency for a biostatistician to advise using a different measure of central tendency?

  • To accept the mean as the best measure.
  • To urgently recommend using the median as a more robust measure of central tendency for skewed data to avoid misrepresenting the typical income.
  • To ignore the skewness.
  • To only use the mode.
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