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Did I say mandatory? I meant optional! You're "free" to die in a cardboard box under a freeway as a market capitalist scarecrow warning to the other ants so they keep showing up to make us more!

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

What's crazy is to calculate the average US income the census folks of the US government exclude billionaires because it would skew reality so much that people would call bullshit on the average with billionaires in the mix.

so they get to be excluded from the "average wage per family" calculations made and distributed by the government.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

I think you're conflating average and mean. When it comes to income average is typically median, which does include billionaires but wouldn't skew the data due to their inclusion.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Average and mean are the same thing (sum of everything divided by total number of things). Median is the middle number.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Colloquially, average is the mean. Mathematically, average can be either mean, median, or mode.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

No, that's just the arithmetic mean. There a other often more appropriate means that can be used. Arithmetic mean is just the one most commonly taught.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Could I see the numbers?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I've never heard that, would be wild if that's truly how they do it, I wonder what the average would be if they included the billionaire family's.

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