[davewiner]

What's so funny about it is that it's not likely true. What would be true is that 49 percent get less than the mean.

[jbester]

Think you have that flipped. The median is the 50th percentile. The mean is the average.

[CPlatypus]

Median would definitely be true. In fact, it's quite likely that more than half are below the average/mean as well, since the distribution is probably a bit skewed. Just as all but one of the people in a room will be below average income when Bill Gates walks in, most Britons are probably below average because of a few high-bandwidth folks pulling the average up.