Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by mynameisnull 1273 days ago
Average is not valid measure to use here as it's vulnerable to distribution skew.
1 comments
coeneedell 1273 days ago
It actually is a valid measure here because they’re using it to estimate total income.
link
vagrantJin 1273 days ago
Thats exactly why its a bad idea to use averages in this particular case.
link
coeneedell 1270 days ago
Average is total divided by number of people. Therefore total is average times number of people.
link