The reason for reporting median income rather than mean income is the possibility of a small number of people in the study who may have very high salaries-thus leading to reporting a higher mean salary that it actually is. Median is not affected by extreme values on either end of the distribution.

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This is because the median represents the middle value of a dataset when it is arranged in ascending or descending order, and is not influenced by outliers or extreme values that may inflate the mean.

The Reason for Reporting Median Income Rather Than Mean Income