[robbmorganf]

What does the median even mean in this context? The whole point of a median is taking the element that is greater than 50% of other elements in a strictly-ordered set, but since when have people or voters been strictly-ordered?

Some people care about climate change (or lack thereof) and others about women's rights (or lack thereof), so even if voters could be quantified, it would at least be a multi dimensional problem.

[magneticnorth]

Same complaint here; definitely an odd type of average to be claiming in this case. Having read/skimmed through, it sounds like median age is 50s, mode race is white, median education is no college. Unclear if that works out to largest demographic group in those dimensions but probably?

[tayo42]

I was a little confused by the phrase. It seems like median only applied to age. Other than that white, no college degree, and not urban was just what was most common.

Kind of funny to think of peoples skin color on a sliding scale like a gradient and picking the median.

[cortesoft]

You could have the median for years of education… but yeah, I have no idea how you would calculate the median race or ethnicity.

And even if you could find the median, you can’t then just combine the medians for three completely separate characteristics and then say that is the median person.