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Essay examines the following topics:

• The relationship between height and weight of the students
• The relationship between the IQ and ages of the students
• The relationship between IQ and the results obtained at Key Stage 2 for the students.

The mean is calculated by adding all results, then dividing by the number of results. Here the mean height is seen as approximately 175cm. The mode is the most frequent result (167cm) and the median is the very middle value of the dataset, here seen as 171cm.

While statistics are useful in aiding our understanding of various subjects, they can also be used as a tool to manipulate and deceive people as they form perceptions and ideas about a particular subject. It is therefore important to be able to test the validity of statistical evidence that is presented to us and to determine whether to accept such evidence.