[lbo-talk] A hundred grand a year???

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

> Which is why I asked: I don't normally see the average quoted in such
> contexts. Not that Doug was doing this, but when people want to lie with
> statistics, they use the mean or average. in a sample where a small number
> of high earners (or whatever) can skew the indicator.

They do not need to "lie," just report the measure of skewness which tells
you how far away the mean and the median are apart and in which direction .

Reporting means is advantageous in many circumstances, especially when you
are testing for between-group differences in samples (or do regression
modeling) which is a means-based test that also takes into account the
dispersion (variance).  Thus, one can find a difference between groups that
have the same median.  

Wojtek