Skewed Distribution

1)  What have you learned so far about statistics that you find interesting? 2)  The book states the following:  “The smaller our sample size and the more extreme the outlier score is, the more these extreme scores will affect the mean in a skewed distribution” Explain how this occurs. I.e. How does a small sample size increase the effect of an outlier on the mean in a skewed distribution?  How do more extreme scores affect the mean in a skewed distribution? This new introductory statistics text from Dawn M. McBride, best-selling author of The Process of Research in Psychology,