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http://www.federalnewsradio.com/index.p ... id=2346644

This is part of the republican plan that has to do with federal worker pay. I want to pull your attention to one piece of it:

"Salaries for federal workers continue to outpace pay for their private-sector counterparts. Average wages in the federal civilian workforce ($74,311 in 2010) far eclipse the $49,777 median wages in private industry."

First off, there is a pretty good article on politifact.com about wages, but what I am here to point out is that they are comparing an average with a median. How did these guys pass 1st grade math class???

Lets say we pick 9 numbers: 5, 10, 15, 15, 15, 50, 55, 60, 70.

So an average of these 9 numbers is (5+10+15+15+15+50+55+60+70)/9 = 295/9 = 32.8
Now, lets look at the median of these numbers: It is simply the middle number when you line them all up in increasing order. In this case it is: 15

So now, 15 vs 34.4 is a very very big difference and as you can see it measures completely different things.

So this morons are now comparing the average salary of a fed with the median salary of private industry. IT IS A MEANINGLESS COMPARISON!

I call bullshit!

I forget who said it, but you can prove anything with numbers.

yeah, hehe. It's particularly true when it comes to statistics. Infamouse for charts and graphs that tell you what you want to hear ;)

John Kyl just took a shit on my lawn and hold me to put it in my pipe and smoke it.

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I was totally going to post a story about numbers and Kyl, but when you Google numbers and Kyl all you get are his top ten man/boy love sites.
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