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>average Americans (the 90%) In what sense is 90% average?
by closeparen 7y ago
>average Americans (the 90%)
In what sense is 90% average?
- wodenokoto 7y agoYou have 100 items, 5 are zero, 5 are 100 and the rest are 50. Your average is 50, and 90% of your items are average. These are your average items (the 90%) In this case, though, average is meant in its colloquial form of another way of saying "normal".
- closeparen 7y agoFor 2017, the average household income was $89k, which corresponds to 65th percentile [0]. There are many "us vs. them" thresholds to choose from; curious what was special about this one. [0] https://dqydj.com/2018-average-median-top-household-income-percentiles/ https://dqydj.com/2018-average-median-top-household-income-p...