Word: medians
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...always very, very surprised when people say I'm cherry-picking because I'm taking the median scenario from the U.N. climate panel. A lot of people say I'm consistently taking the most optimistic of points. I mean, by God, I'm saying what is the most likely - the median - temperature increase: 2.6 degrees C or 4.7 degrees F. Now it might get warmer than that. But it also might be cooler than that. This is the most likely outcome, what most people call the business-as-usual scenario. Likewise when I say "a one-foot rise...
...acing standardized tests. According to the first nationwide analysis of high-achieving students based on income, more than 1 million K-12 students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunches rank in the top quartile. Expand the category to include children whose families make less than the median U.S. income, and the total rises to 3.4 million--more than the entire population of Iowa. Now the bad news: nearly half of lower-income students in the top tier in reading fall out of it by fifth grade. As economically disadvantaged brainiacs get older, 25% of them drop ranks...
...Both are about endlessly self-obsessed boomers dealing with self-worth - about work and children in the late 1980s and '90s when the median boomer was in her 30s and about authenticity and aging now that the median boomer is 52. And both conflicts are about the right ways to interpret the legacies of feminism. If the personal is the political, as the women on the barricades made us believe, then even choices about how to face old age are going to be loaded. Barbara Kass, a New York City psychotherapist and definitely a citizen of Woodstock Nation...
...Median household income, up 0.7%, in part because more people are working full-time...
...Median sales prices, existing homes...