[tobtoh]

Oh of course. I forgot about the difference between median and average!

For the purpose of the point the article was making in that section (about how the efforts to 'make Broadway more affordable and more democratic come up short.', the 'average' income seems particularly useless as a metric to gauge success.

As you point out, the median is a much better metric.

[lotsofpulp]

I think we need a law that all data needs to be presented in deciles, or at least quintiles.

It is incredibly annoying to know that someone had the data and chose to not show its distribution, when it costs them almost nothing to do so. I assume any use of the word “average” without specifying mean or median, or really any use of mean average, to be clickbait because there is no reason to use it when you know the underlying distribution is skewed.