PLEASED USE THE ATTACHED FILE IN ORDER TO COMPLETE THE DISCUSSION QUESTIONS BELO

PLEASED USE THE ATTACHED FILE IN ORDER TO COMPLETE THE DISCUSSION QUESTIONS BELOW
Nishishiba et al. (2013) explain in chapter 7 that “Descriiptive statistics are used to organize and describe the characteristics of the data. In some cases, this is the whole purpose of the research. In other cases, the researcher intends to use inferential statistics to confirm or test hypotheses about the population of interest. In all cases, the data analysis should begin with ‘descriiptive statistics’ “. Why is it important to begin your analysis with descriiptive statistics? (see page 125)

And now for the debate…
“Typically, significant skewness happens when you have extreme values/outliers in your data set. If a small number of values are extremely low, then the data distribution will be negatively skewed; if a small number of values are extremely high, then the data distribution will be positively skewed” (Nishishiba et al.,2013) .
So, regarding skewness, is this a good thing or a bad thing for data analysis? Explain. (see pages 137-143; and 143 specifically)