Central tendency error,

Definition of Central tendency error:

1. In performance appraisals or recruitment interviews, tendency of managers and interviewers to rate all or most of the employees or interviewees as average.

2. The tendency for the values of a random variable to cluster round its mean, mode, or median.

How to use Central tendency error in a sentence?

1. The arithmetic mean is useful, but it is not sufficient to describe a population because of the range of values from the central tendency.