Wouldnt mean salary be a better representation of the public then median?
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If there are extreme outliers, averages don’t work well. Two examples.
If Bill Gates walked into an elevator with 9 other normal people, the average net worth of everyone there would be around $10b which obviously doesn’t mean anything.
If aliens asked the average number of testicles that all of humanity have, aliens would assume that the vast majority people had one testicle.
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