A lakeside neighborhood in Washington is home to a couple of successful baseball and football players in Seattle. If news articles usually report the median household income in that neighborhood rather than the mean income, this would be because income is a left-skewed distribution.

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Income is typically a right-skewed distribution, meaning there are a few very high incomes that would raise the mean significantly above the median. Reporting the median income provides a more typical value of what most people earn, avoiding the distortion caused by very high incomes.

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