Did I say mandatory? I meant optional! You’re “free” to die in a cardboard box under a freeway as a market capitalist scarecrow warning to the other ants so they keep showing up to make us more!

  • @[email protected]
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    824 hours ago

    I think you’re conflating average and mean. When it comes to income average is typically median, which does include billionaires but wouldn’t skew the data due to their inclusion.

    • @[email protected]
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      023 hours ago

      Average and mean are the same thing (sum of everything divided by total number of things). Median is the middle number.

      • @UndercoverUlrikHD
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        212 hours ago

        No, that’s just the arithmetic mean. There a other often more appropriate means that can be used. Arithmetic mean is just the one most commonly taught.

      • @[email protected]
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        1423 hours ago

        Colloquially, average is the mean. Mathematically, average can be either mean, median, or mode.