A scatterplot shows paired (x, y) points. Read the trend: positive, negative, or none, and how tight the cloud is. Mean, median, and mode from a list are in mean, median, and mode.
Cloud, not a line you must draw
A point far from the cloud is an outlier, in outliers. Desmos can fit a line, in regression in Desmos.
Histograms bin one variable, in histograms.
The bottom line
Direction plus tightness. One stray point does not rewrite the trend unless the stem asks about it.
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