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Re:Black economic gains reversed in Great Recession by gte910h on Sunday July 10, 2011 @09:38AM (#2747738)
Misleading statistic alert: Super rich people happen to be white.

Come on folks, something usable in a statistic that doesn't just make us groan.

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Re:Black economic gains reversed in Great Recession by hezekiah on Sunday July 10, 2011 @09:39AM (#2747742)
Learn the difference between median and average. It will change your life. :-)
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Re:Black economic gains reversed in Great Recession by gte910h on Sunday July 10, 2011 @09:42AM (#2747750)
Yup. The concept of the median and percentiles is flabbergasting to people who've not heard of averages other than the mean.
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Re:Black economic gains reversed in Great Recession by ghc on Sunday July 10, 2011 @04:15PM (#2748518)
Er, um...he was suggesting you learn the difference, but I think you simply did not read the article carefully enough. The statistics are not misleading, as the article properly uses the median, not the mean.
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