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by tayo42 1717 days ago
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.

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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.