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Re:Better technology means higher expectations, which create... by NoGravitas on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @12:05PM (#22046772)
Use of the median rather than the mean is extremely misleading here – wage increases have been concentrated in the top 10% of wage earners.

A more representative view of the same data is shown here: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us...

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Re:Better technology means higher expectations, which create... by pavpanchekha on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @12:11PM (#22046821)
Median means what the 50th percentile earns; mean is the total earned divided by the number of earners. In right-skewed distributions (like wage data) the median is less than the mean. In other words, your critique is already answered by the parent.
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