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Re:The standard American household is now a millionaire, acc... by Manuel_D on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @06:15PM (#38006440)
As per the article, median net worth is $192,900.
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Re:The standard American household is now a millionaire, acc... by bfbdkcj on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @09:53PM (#38008211)
That's a lot higher than I would've thought.

I wonder if negative net worth is included in the mean and median calculations, or if it's clamped to 0.

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Re:The standard American household is now a millionaire, acc... by sokoloff on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @10:03PM (#38008281)
You don’t need to clamp for the median (unless you mean to exclude them from the dataset entirely, which is almost surely not done).
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