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minus-squareOwenEverbinde@lemmy.myserv.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down4·edit-28 months agoOh. Just over the median income in America. So literally half the population of the most powerful country in the world is insulated from the problem. EDIT: okay, looks like I was looking at median household income and not median personal income. Meaning my math is off.
minus-squaremaniclucky@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoI feel like the mean is rather skewed in the US. It’s almost certainly less than half that are insulated.
minus-squaremaniclucky@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoYou’re right, I was off on a weird thing. Was thinking about the skew between mean and median indicating this or that, but starting in median keeps us in population counting territory. I was just wrong. Derp.
Oh. Just over the median income in America. So literally half the population of the most powerful country in the world is insulated from the problem.
EDIT: okay, looks like I was looking at median household income and not median personal income. Meaning my math is off.
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I feel like the mean is rather skewed in the US. It’s almost certainly less than half that are insulated.
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You’re right, I was off on a weird thing. Was thinking about the skew between mean and median indicating this or that, but starting in median keeps us in population counting territory. I was just wrong. Derp.