A judge has been hired to resolve the salary negotiations between a company and its labor union. The great majority of union members have relatively low salaries; however, a small percentage of union members have very high salaries. In order to influence the judge in their favor, the company management would want to use the ______ to summarize workers' current wages, while the union would use the ______.

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The mean is easily skewed by outliers, such as the small percentage of union members with very high salaries. Therefore, the company management would want to use the mean to make it appear as though the majority of union members are already being paid fairly. In contrast, the union would want to use the median, which is a better representation of the typical salary for the majority of union members.

A Judge Has Been Hired to Resolve the Salary Negotiations