Part of your job as an HR manager is to monitor the performance of trainees as they finish a 4-week paid training program, which includes a product knowledge test. You have to determine which trainees can finish the program, which may require remediation (additional training and re-testing), and which should not continue with the training (termination) based on their scores on the product knowledge exam.

Review the mean, standard deviation, and 5-number summary of the trainees' exam scores below. You can also review the individualexam scoresand functions used to calculate the descriptive analyses in Excel, if desired.

• Mean: 75.5
• Standard Deviation: 19.57
• Minimum: 18
• Quartile 1: 67.75
• Median: 80.5
• Quartile 3: 87
• Maximum: 99

• Would you prefer to use the mean or the median in this dataset's measure of central tendency? Why?
• Based on this training class's scores, what scores do you think should be considered for completion, remediation, and termination? How did you come to that conclusion?
• Do you think that these scores should be the threshold for all training classes? Why or why not?