• iopq@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    5 is more representative than the mode, since it does show that about half make more and half made less

    1 is ignoring the rest of the data completely

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      5 months ago

      If this was a representative sample the ones would have rebelled already. This is a teaching example.

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        5 months ago

        Not really, if the 1 is $100,000, should they feel worse than the $500,000 and above?