return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 year 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-square272fedilinkarrow-up1547arrow-down119
arrow-up1528arrow-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.comreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square272fedilink
minus-squareprole@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-21 year agoThey use the median instead of mean here for a reason… Can you guess it?
minus-squareforce@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 year 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