raghu wrote:



    Median means squat in this context... 1000 households with x
    dollars and
    one millionaire with x times 10,000 dollars and the median is...?



The median is exactly x dollars.... That is the whole point of looking
at medians instead of arithmetic averages. By definition 50% of the
population is above median.

-raghu.


Then it means that 1/2 of Americans that DO have retirement funds have a
median of $35,000.
If so, it still means squat.


Leigh
http://leighm.net/

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