Consider Meenu’s question in Peer Help:

The course says that the oil consumption data set is skewedto the right. However, the graph at hand seems to have a skew tothe left. Any clarification on this?

Her classmate, Bryant, responded saying:

When a graph is skewed to the right, it means that there isa longer tail on the right side. The bulk of the data actually sitson the left side of the distribution, but there are a few datapoints that are spread far to the right of the bulk of thedistribution, like 18 and 20.

Is Bryant’s response effective or ineffective?

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Bryants response is effective Reason In Statistics Right skewness or ... View the full answer