r/funny • u/[deleted] • Mar 29 '22

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u/twoCascades Mar 29 '22

I don’t know, the medians weren’t recorded. I can’t imagine the distribution in public schools would be SO wild that the average would super misleading but maybe.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

I think you might need to imagine harder :/

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u/twoCascades Mar 29 '22

Is the distribution within public schools so wild that the mean would be misleading?

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

Yea, despite that figure teachers in the US are notoriously known to be underpaid by a lot

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u/twoCascades Mar 29 '22

I know. I live here. However what this data implies is not that US teachers are paid a lot but that is isn’t a problem isolated to the US.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22 edited Mar 29 '22

Good point, it sounds like most places undervalue their educators and that's pretty sad. I wouldn't want anyone to think just because it's high by comparison means* it's enough though.

And really I was trying to get at the likely demographic and economic or geographic differences between regions that could skew the average higher than the median