• CraigeryTheKid@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Is this fact/accurate??

    Excluding top 1000 drops the average in half??

    Definitely a reason to only ever use median instead.

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      5 months ago

      Median is the middle point of the population and has its place when the range doesn’t skew too much. I think a good representation of income is by percentages, as in “90% of people make $x,000 or below”. This chart had dated (2010) data but its a better representation than I’ve found elsewhere1000002576