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What effect will the presence of the outlier in the data set below have on the mean of the data set? {78, 99, 85, 92, 97, 90, 89, 27, 97, 72, 75, 83, 91, 96}

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Effect of the outlive in the set on the mean of the set is it reduces the {78, 99, 85, 92, 97, 90, 89, 27, 97, 72, 75, 83, 91, 96}
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The outlier is 27, which is significantly smaller than the rest of the numbers. It's gonna make the mean misleadingly small
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