A statistics class with 40 students consists of 30 students with no income, 10 students with small incomes from part-time jobs, and a professor with a very large income that is well deserved. Which is better for describing the income of a typical person in this class: mean or median? Explain.
The median would be better for describing the income of a typical person in the class because the professor's large salary skews the data to the right while all the students are towards the left and center.