The answer depends on the nature of the outlier. Removing a very small outlier will increase the mean while removing a large outlier will reduce the mean.
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it messes up the mean and sometimes the median. * * * * * An outlier cannot mess up the median.
The outlier is capable of affecting mean median mode and range it affects mean because the average has changed if affects median because you have to cross out 1 more letter it doesn't affect mode it does affect range because an outlier is a number that i far away from the other numbers * * * * * It does not affect the median.
An* outlier is a number that is much, much greater or much, much less than all/most of the other points. Basically the one that messes up the average, so usually outliers are counted out when finding the mean of a set.
The mean may be a good measure but not if the data distribution is very skewed.