Shocking News: Half Above Average, Half Below Average
According to the Los Angeles Times,
… at least nine of the city’s 18 elected leaders used higher than average amounts of water — sometimes a little, other times a lot — over the last two years.
So, um, nine of the eighteen is half … so half were above the average … and half were below the average … who else isn’t surprised?
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August 13th, 2007 at 9:16 am
Actually, I am. In an era when it seems like millionaires have the corner on political power, you would expect that the universe of political leaders would be skewed, especially in large cities.
So perhaps our political leaders ARE representative.
August 13th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
I think LA times were making a mathematical point here. Half above and half below is a definition of a median. Median is not always equal to average, but in this case it may be, wow!…