You are a clinical scientist investigating the effect of a new non-addictive pain medication on post-operative children. This medication is supposed to block the transmission of neuronal signals by pain receptors. You hypothesize that, if the medication works, there should be less firing in the pain-recognition area of the brain. Using sophisticated tomography, you record the net oxygen consumption per minute of neurons in this region of the brain and compare that to similar data from individuals given a placebo. What is the best way to report the central tendency of these data and why?

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The best way to report the central tendency of the data would be to use the mean along with a mea... View the full answer