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prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 hours agoThere is a reason median is used here… If you take into account the massive (and constantly growing) income gap, it’s obvious that things have gotten worse for the average American.
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
You’ve got it backwards, median takes into account income gap better. Mean would be much higher today because of the increasing income gap. That is why I used the median, so that interesting inequality would be less of a factor.