The mean is generally the preferred measure of central tendency to describe numerical data,but not categorical data.

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The mean is calculated by adding up all of the data points and dividing by the number of data points. This calculation relies on the numerical values of the data, so it is not applicable to categorical data. In contrast, measures like frequency or mode are used to describe categorical data.

The Mean Is Generally the Preferred Measure of Central Tendency