"Statistics New Zealand reported in June that the average annual gross income for a household was $65,520 a year.
After-tax incomes of $70,000 and $80,000 among those living in state houses were "not uncommon," Mr Heatley said."
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3603795a11,00.html
Having a strong statistical background (and in fact earning some of my income through exploiting how people don't understand statistics) things like this really p*ss me off. Can't the papers do a story without changing the interpretation through deliberatly misleading statistics?
The above really should read:
"Statistics New Zealand reported in June that the average annual net income for a household was $48697 a year.
After-tax incomes of $70,000 and $80,000 among those living in state houses were "not uncommon," Mr Heatley said."
Gosh - makes slightly different reading eh?
2 comments:
Hey I borrowed your calculation for my own blog entry on this, with a different spin of course.
Saw that this morning and smiled
Glad to be of help ;-)
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