First, consider deliberate thinking. Deliberate thinking is relatively slow, rule-based and explicit; a contemplative process of weighing pros and cons, gathering scientific or statistical evidence. It would appear that this makes for pretty solid decision-making.
Jul 24, 2015. Outliers increase the standard deviation. Mean is most affected by outliers, since all values in a sample are given the same weight when calculating mean. A value that is far removed from the mean is going to likely skew your results and increase the standard deviation. Say you have five values: 2, 1, 2, 1.5, and 2.1.
An outlier does not affect the median or mode in any important way but an outlier can create a signiï¬cant change to the mean.Required close-to-at-hand prior knowledge:â¤ Understand mean, median, and mode (grade 7 outcome 7.SP.1).â¤ Comfortability with a spreadsheet (the DEVELOP lesson makes use of a spreadsheet).