25% of Wharton students think the average American worker makes over $100k a year
"I asked Wharton students what they thought the average American worker makes per year and 25% of them thought it was over six figures. One of them thought it was $800k. Really not sure what to make of this (The real number is $45k)" - Nina Strohminger, professor of legal studies & business ethics at Wharton
The article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/01/20/wharton-students-wag…
To be clear she is teaching 100 (mainly first-year) undergrad students through a legal studies and ethics course this semester and the assignment was basically a pre-course survey. People watched her class today and she mentioned there was also a respondent who put 5 million as the average. She didn't include it because she thought it was a joke, not sure why she didn't think the 800k was a joke as well. Also nowhere did she say she would be sharing the result of the survey with the world
True (I would definitely had put a joke answer down fwiw). Also: 25% of students in her class? I’d venture a guess that the class is about 25% international. If I was in an international country being asked this question, not only would I have no idea, but there’s the whole currency difference factor, making it difficult to compare without crunching the numbers.
Hadn't even thought of that.
What’s the point of her question besides her own amusement?
You can go to a really good school and still be a colossal moron. Some of the dumbest people I knew in college went to ivy leagues (more often than not they were legacy students). Combine that with rich and fairly sheltered and this is a pretty easy result to believe.
"I mean it's one banana Michael. What can it cost? $10?" That about sums it up.
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They probably confused average and median
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I dunno not that surprising, so lets say 5 of that percent was joking or just didn't care. It's fairly believable that 20% of the class is just dumb, even at a Ivy plenty of idiots are around make no mistake of that.
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