Tom Perez

Union members not only earn higher median wages; they are more likely to have paid sick leave, short-term disability, and employer-provided child care. Giving people a voice at work - the ability to organize and negotiate for their fair share of the value they helped create - is absolutely essential to a growing, vibrant middle class.

American Politician

Nick Hanauer

It is true that rich people can spend more money than middle class people, but there's this upper limit on what we can spend. I drive a very nice car, but it's only one car. I don't own a thousand, even though I earn a thousand times the median wage. I have a few jackets, not a few thousand.

American Businessman

Daniel Tammet

I found maths very easy, but I still enjoyed discovering things. You have to have the necessary information. For example, what's the difference between the mean and the median? Probability fascinated me. You have to think very carefully about things, which is the way my mind works anyway.

English Writer

Abhijit Banerjee

The poverty line in the U.S., for example, has nothing to do with the poverty line in India. It is a relative poverty line. It is reset from time to time but it is related to U.S. median income, so if I set that to be the absolute poverty line everyone in India would essentially be poor.

American Economist

Marc Andreessen

There's no such thing as median income; there's a curve, and it really matters what side of the curve you're on. There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing.

Carrie Lam

While easy to understand, the income-based poverty line has limitations. Specifically, the median monthly household income measures only income without considering assets.

Chinese Politician

Rebecca Traister

Since the late 19th century, the median age of first marriage for women had fluctuated between 20 and 22. This had been the shape, pattern and definition of female life.

American Author

George M. Church

I like to keep the median age in my lab low because they will indulge me in my dreams. They don't yet think things are impossible.

American Scientist

Tom Junod

In a society in which the median age keeps advancing, we have no choice but to keep redefining youth.

American Journalist

Aja Brown

I was raised by a single mother. We were definitely below the median income of our area.

The adjective 'median' often describes lines or structures that divide something into two equal parts.

Geometrical Use

'Median' means the middle in a sequence, but it doesn't necessarily mean it's centrally located.

Not Always Central

As a noun in math, 'median' refers to the middle number in an ordered set of values.

Middle Number

The median is clear in odd-numbered sets. With even sets, it’s the average of the two middle numbers.

Odd vs Even Sets

Don't confuse 'median' with 'average'; median is the middle value, average is the sum divided by count.

Not The Average

In economics, 'median' shows typical value which can indicate overall economic trends without extreme values.

Indicative of Trends

'Median' income describes the income level separating the higher half from lower half of a population.

Middle Income

In transportation, the 'median' is a physical barrier that separates opposing lanes of traffic.

Road Divider

The median can be a crucial safety feature to prevent head-on collisions on highways.

Safety Feature

 And the really amazing thing is, because there were so many students, it means that even if a student posed a question at 3 o'clock in the morning, somewhere around the world, there would be somebody who was awake and working on the same problem. And so, in many of our courses, the median response time for a question

Daphne Koller: What...

 the median age is 38 the u.s. population 20 percent of it is our 25 percent of it is under 20 years of age so that means when we're talking about these things we have to recognize that for the time that most of these people most of the people

Want interstellar...

 today's world this this intersection of new media and old median the fractured media landscape isn't the idea to get that new buzz worthy delivery vehicle that's going to get that message to the masses now that's what I thought but the

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 and that window of opportunity happens in the first three years of life. It's not that that window closes; it doesn't. But it diminishes considerably. And yet, the median age of diagnosis in this country is still about five years,

Ami Klin: A new way to...

 That would be bad. But it won't wipe out, you know, all life on Earth, so that's fine. But it turns out, you don't need something six miles across to do a lot of damage. There is a median point between tiny rock and gigantic rock,

Phil Plait: How to...

 but many of us saw a sequence of events where rock bottom was possible for the first time. And the truth is, it really doesn't take much. The median household in the US only has enough savings to replace one month of income.

An honest look at the...

 So too for technology workers and financial services workers, who earn multiples of the median wage and yet we employ more and more of them, so clearly you can raise the price of employment and get more of it.

Beware, fellow...

 or are there other people here that are a little bit disappointed with democracy? So let's look at a few numbers. If we look across the world, the median turnout in presidential elections

A bold idea to replace...

 So 15.5 seconds is the median time for subjects in his experiment there. I love this one. I'll end with this one, just because it's such an obvious and important thing.

The illusion of...

 So what does he look like? The world's most typical person is male Males outnumber females but just barely The median age of the world's population is 28