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That’ll be Why the Median is Barely Over 40
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This why statistics are so frustrating you can make them say anything.
Well, not anything... It's pretty recognized that in most cases, median provides a more realistic and representative measure than average for this very reason (outliers).
The median is an average. It's less susceptible to skew than the mean, the most commonly used average.
Ok, I see what you mean. In my education, average and mean we're used interchangeably.
Must be a hell of a lot of people earning SO much less than the median wage if the average wage excluding only 1000 out of ~335m is already significantly lower..
Yeh
I wouldn't be surprised if half of Americans earned less than the median.
The average annual salary in Canada in 2021 was $59,300
The median income in Canada is $68,400, after taxes, according to Statistics Canada's income survey (2021)
Huh.. seems backwards in Canada's case....
Salary and income are not necessarily the same thing.
Most people's incomes are not salaries, I'd think.
https://www.dundaslife.com/blog/average-income-in-canada#toc-average-canadian-household-income-for-2024
This website seems to use salary and income interchangeably as if they were the same thing.
I lament statements like this because I work with statistics and you can't just make them say anything. I hate that people use this to dismiss real facts.
You always have to look at the distribution, which is hard to do well. Simple statistics and averages hide so much detail, it's often ineptitude more than outright deceit.
This is why words are so frustrating, you can make them say anything.
This is why saying is so wordy, because you can anything make you want
Why waste time say lot word when few do trick?
Why -time by say +word? Punct +better.
+word → -time; punct > word
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