[lbo-talk] Naomi Klein Goes Daft

[Miles Jackson]

ken hanly wrote:
>   What Klein says makes perfect sense. Consider four
> people who over the same period earn 15 dollars, 15
> dollars, 20 dollars and 100 dollars respectively. The
> average earning is 75 dollars and three of the four
> people earn less.
>    There would only be a problem with what she says if
> the term "mean" were used not "average".

Huh?  150/4 = 37.5, so the mean is 37.5, and her statement is correct if 
she used the term "mean".

Miles