Larry Hurn

This is my favorite show on TV. I watch every week. I admit I was disappointed by a significant error concerning the Mean and Median of US income broadcast on October 20, 2019. Fareed Zakaria stated that the median (the center point on the US income curve, a negatively skewed curve) was approximately $60,000 to 70,000 per year and the mean (which is called the average in grade school and calculated by adding value of each income and then dividing by the number of incomes) was approximately $100,000 to 200,000 per year. Then Fareed Zakaria stated that meant half of American households had incomes below the median and half had incomes above the median. This statement would only be true if the curved is a perfect Bell Curve. In a perfect Bell curve, the mode (which is where the majority of incomes fall), the median, and the mean are equal. The statement the that the median was lower in value than the mean proves that the curve Fareed was discussing was a negatively skewed curve and the statement about half of the income of US housholds below the median was not only misleading, it was also false. Fareed owes his devoted viewers a correction and an apology. Carol Hurn, wife of Larry Hurn.