It does look to me like massaging the data. There's a simple question: is the average is over ? The simplest way to measure this is to look at salaries the av

It does look to me like massaging the data. There's a simple question: is the average is over ? The simplest way to measure this is to look at salaries the average people(50th percentile) vs salaries of stars(90th percentile). Is there a reason to measure this the way caplan talks in the article ?