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by taneq 2557 days ago
> The median white family is worth $100k (almost entirely home equity). The average black family is worth $7,000.

Did you intend to jump between median and mean here? I'd guess that using median for both would make your case even stronger.

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He didn't jump between them, looking at the article, they're both the median, I think he just said average because in a surprising number of places "average" isn't always synonymous with "mean", it's more synonymous with "measure of central tendency", so the mean, median, and mode can all be called the average as long as you've established which one you're talking about first.