Question

Which are the better statistics to use to compare the team scores?27Team A's scoresHO27 29 31 33 35 37 39 41Team B's scoresHhi2931 3335 37 39 4143 4543 45

Answer 1

A. Median and I

1) When we have to face questions like these in which there are two boxplots, we can compare the medians to locate the middle number of each distribution.

Team A's scores' median: 33

Team B's scores' median: 31

2) The next item to check is the dispersion of the data, so we'll resort to the Interquartile Range.

3) Thus, the answer is A