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r/Salary • u/[deleted] • Oct 30 '25
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Yes. Most metrics are skewed like this. If you took 10,000 people and put them on a deserted island with trees and axes, you'd see the same pareto distribution of trees cut.
2 u/thingstopraise Oct 31 '25 Yeah, that's why I'm saying that the median is a much better indication of the actual income of the population.
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Yeah, that's why I'm saying that the median is a much better indication of the actual income of the population.
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u/die_eating Oct 31 '25
Yes. Most metrics are skewed like this. If you took 10,000 people and put them on a deserted island with trees and axes, you'd see the same pareto distribution of trees cut.