Wouldnt mean salary be a better representation of the public then median?
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The mean salary is determined by adding all the salaries up and then dividing by the number of salaries. Because of this the mean is very susceptible to extremely high and extremely low salaries. Let’s have an example. Imagine one hundred people. 99 of those people make nothing. One person makes a million dollars a year. The mean income would then be 10k a year, but the median would be zero. The median in this case is a lot closer to what a typical person in this scenario is making. Statistics can be misleading!
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