@return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world • 2 years ago'An economic divide that is widening': Almost one third of Americans earning $150,000 a year or more say they're living paycheck to paycheck and many rely on credit cards to close the gapfinance.yahoo.comexternal-linkmessage-square274fedilinkarrow-up1545arrow-down119
arrow-up1526arrow-down1external-link'An economic divide that is widening': Almost one third of Americans earning $150,000 a year or more say they're living paycheck to paycheck and many rely on credit cards to close the gapfinance.yahoo.com@return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world • 2 years agomessage-square274fedilink
minus-squareprolelinkfedilinkEnglish5•edit-22 years agoThey use the median instead of mean here for a reason… Can you guess it?
minus-square@force@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•edit-22 years agoBecause mean income is a useless metric in most contexts due to it being extremely warped due to outliers (billionaires) since this country has the worst income inequality in the first world by far…? Do I get a trophy now
They use the median instead of mean here for a reason… Can you guess it?
Because mean income is a useless metric in most contexts due to it being extremely warped due to outliers (billionaires) since this country has the worst income inequality in the first world by far…? Do I get a trophy now