[lbo-talk] skew

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Mar 26 15:35:37 PDT 2007


So the mean weekly salary for postsecondary teachers is less than 8% higher than the median. That's not all that big a skew. For household income, the mean is 37% higher than the median - and that's with the top-coding technique that the Census Bureau uses, which treats all incomes above $999,999 as $999,999, allegedly to preserve confidentiality.

Doug



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