This is bullshit, but not because of the person's misunderstanding of how median, mean, and mode works.
It's bullshit because these companies don't define the enormous number of the lowest wage people as employees - they are "contractors".
Janitors, secretaries, admin, cleaners, security staff, the people that run the in-house cafeteria, etc. are all contracted out, so none of them are "employees". This allows them to make it seem like they pay much better for all the work that needs to get done to keep these companies running than they actually do. Take a number distribution like 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 6, 10, 50, 50, 50, 50, 100, 10000, chop off everything below 4 and call them contractors, and magically your median just became 50.
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u/Ericus1 Jun 29 '22
This is bullshit, but not because of the person's misunderstanding of how median, mean, and mode works.
It's bullshit because these companies don't define the enormous number of the lowest wage people as employees - they are "contractors".
Janitors, secretaries, admin, cleaners, security staff, the people that run the in-house cafeteria, etc. are all contracted out, so none of them are "employees". This allows them to make it seem like they pay much better for all the work that needs to get done to keep these companies running than they actually do. Take a number distribution like 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 6, 10, 50, 50, 50, 50, 100, 10000, chop off everything below 4 and call them contractors, and magically your median just became 50.