First figure is pretty bad too: "How average U.S. rent has changed relative to median income." ... Why compare mean to median? Simple example that shows this c

First figure is pretty bad too: "How average U.S. rent has changed relative to median income." ... Why compare mean to median? Simple example that shows this could be no big deal . incomes = [2,4,8,500, 500] median income = 8 rents = [1,2,4, 250, 250 ] average rent = 101.4 OMG !!! SO MUCH MORE THAN AVERAGE INCOME.