> > From: Keith McGuinness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/07/24 Mon PM 09:41:58 GMT > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: New telephoto lenses? > > mike wilson wrote: > >> From: Keith McGuinness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > >> graywolf wrote: > >>> Well, I like the idea of killing everyone who has an income above the > >>> median, they are resource hogs having more than their fair share of > >>> everything. > >> You want to kill half the population on the planet? > >> > >> Seems a little drastic! > > > > Probably more like 10%. Ineffective. > > Nope -- exactly half. > > The MEDIAN income is that which divides the population into two > halves: 50% above and 50% below. > > If graywolf had said MEAN income, you might be about right. > > Apologies for being pedantic; it's genetic. 8-) > > Keith McG
But Tom's talking about median _income_. Median is the midpoint in a series of numbers, not the number that causes a 50/50 split in a derivative of it. In modern society, say incomes go from 0 to 10million, the median is 5million. But the number of people with higher than 5million will be much lower than the number below. Sorry, you're just not pedantic enough. Pedantic would be pointing out that I'm assuming one pass. 8-) ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
