Dr Vance conducted an observational study recording the number of verbal aggression incidents initiated by individual offenders in a rehabilitation facility over a six-month period. Dr Vance decided to use the median rather than the mean as the measure of central tendency for this data.
Explain why Dr Vance used the median instead of the mean in this study.
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