• pHr34kY@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Average income is not a useful metric. The higher the average gets, the further it drifts from the median.

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      Median is an average. It would be helpful if they specified whether they are using mean or median, but median is the average usually talked about with respect to income, precisely because it’s much more useful.