When the measure of central tendency is the median, and you are concerned about outliers, which of the following is the most appropriate measure of variability?

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Both the range and the standard deviation are affected by extreme values. Only the interquartile range is unaffected by extreme values (since it reports the range for the middle 50% of the values - from the 25th percentile to the 75th percentile).

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