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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
I didn't say that it eliminates the problem. It's just that robko's theory that doing the mean instead of the average is to cover for a bunch of really high priced lawyers can't be correct since there are only 4 lawyers with partner status.
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4 lawyers charging $100 each -> median = $100, mean = $100
3 lawyers charging $100 each and 1 charging $1000 -> median = $100, mean = $325
You only need one outlier to greatly affect the mean, but not the median.