From page 32 in the chapter on how to "choose the right average"
> You and your partners have paid yourselves $11,000 each in salaries. You find there are profits for the year of $45,000 to be divided
equally among you. How are you going to describe this?
To make it easy to understand, you put it in the form of
averages. Since all the employees are doing about the
same kind of work for similar pay, it won’t make much
difference whether you use a mean or a median.
> This is what you come out with:
> Average wage of employees $ 2,200
> Average salary and profit of owners .... 26,000
> That looks terrible, doesn’t it? Let’s try it another way
> Take $30,000 of the profits and distribute it among the
three partners as bonuses. And this time when you aver-
age up the wages, include yourself and your partners. And
be sure to use a mean.
