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_AndyJessop t1_iuv6u14 wrote

I don't know if it's not useful. After reading the title, I was imagining a bell curve with the given bounds at about 2 standard deviations. Probably pretty accurate.

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crazy-robot-guy t1_iuywkfs wrote

Then it's worse than not useful, it's potentially very misleading - real-world data (and salaries in particular) do not always follow that distribution. There's a reason medians are often the preferred benchmark.

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