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		william42 on Nov 24, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Education pays ... In fact, median is very very explicitly what you want to use, because outliers are just that and the vast majority of people aren't. One study on UNC-Chapel Hill graduates in the 1980s said that the best-paying major was geography. Why? Michael Jordan majored in geography.

dredmorbius on Nov 24, 2011 [–]

Yeah, that's my sense of it. Median as opposed to mean. I'm just not sure what OP's "opposed to" / preferred measure is.

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