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Re:Study: Rich are less generous when they think there’s hig... by jschwartzi on Saturday November 28, 2015 @07:26PM (#10643162)
Is that a mean, median, or mode?
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Re:Study: Rich are less generous when they think there’s hig... by Dylan16807 on Saturday November 28, 2015 @08:13PM (#10643306)
Do you really think it could be mode?

(Also, it would be very strange to use "average of the top 1 percent" to mean "99.5th percentile")

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Re:Study: Rich are less generous when they think there’s hig... by SapphireSun on Saturday November 28, 2015 @08:18PM (#10643326)
I'm guessing mean. It's a power law distribution, a few people are eye poppingly wealthy, and even fewer are double pop, but you might not have eyes left after the first one.
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