Say Nantucket, if you read beyond the headline, you will see that Obama’s 77% statistic is also a median, and doesn’t take into account experience or education. .“Brendan Buck, a spokesman for House Speaker John A. Boehner, said the 77-cent statistic that Mr. Obama has often cited was misleading for the same reason, because it aggregates salaries for the American workforce. “The wage gap is real, but the White House does itself a disservice — and embarrasses itself in the process — by grasping for misleading statistics that don’t tell the whole story,” Mr. Buck said.”.So the 77% statistic averages ALL salaries – secretaries, doctors, lawyers, bus drivers, etc. Neither statistic, by the way, says anything about the cause of the discrepancy.
Say Nantucket, if you read beyond the headline, you will see that Obama’s 77% statistic is also a median, and doesn’t take into account experience or education. .“Brendan Buck, a spokesman for House Speaker John A. Boehner, said the 77-cent statistic that Mr. Obama has often cited was misleading for the same reason, because it aggregates salaries for the American workforce. “The wage gap is real, but the White House does itself a disservice — and embarrasses itself in the process — by grasping for misleading statistics that don’t tell the whole story,” Mr. Buck said.”.So the 77% statistic averages ALL salaries – secretaries, doctors, lawyers, bus drivers, etc. Neither statistic, by the way, says anything about the cause of the discrepancy.