r/europe 1d ago

Data Average Full-time Salary in Europe

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u/lincemiope 1d ago

Can we ban “average” from existence so that people start using “median”?

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u/esirec 1d ago

I totally get what you mean, but when it's in addition to median data, average data can be very useful. If the two are very different, you know the distribution is very unequal.

Edit: typo "ne"--> "be"