Christoph Reuss wrote:
> >> More stinking averages...
>>>
>>> <http://www.bls.gov/emptab7.htm>
>>>
>>> Unemployment and earnings for year-round, full-time workers age 25
>>> and over, by educational attainment
>>>
>>> unemployment median
>>> rate, earnings,
>>> 1998 1997
>
>Note that these are _medians_, not "stinking averages".
>The median is a much more robust statistical metric than the average (mean).
>("robust" meaning less sensitive to far-out dots)
Yes. Interestingly, for lots of those wage categories, the mean is
lower than the median.
Doug
