And if you say "oh, it is far in Siberia, but this is not what happens around the capitals": this is a photo from a "Federal Highway" in Petersburg region. Please note the perfect "asphalt".
As a former Russian, and a son of a medic, I can smell these pictures, so much they are authentic. It is a mixture of urine, chlorine, cold air, and cheap drugs. A terrible smell I need to say. A one cannot be erased from memory.
For those who say "but Russian GDP is so high!" or "but average wealth is bigger than in Ukraine!" Guys, this is Norilsk, the home of world biggest nickel producer. 177,000 ppl live in Norilsk. The owner of NorNickel Prokhorov has $11bn wealth. This makes $62,000 per person, aha.
I'm confused about why you keep showing us mysterious dirty city pictures instead of just telling us median incomes to avoid the well-established statistical issues with per capita income
because $4931.98 is different than $4932.03
So the most common wage is going to end up being a somewhat random number
Median is better, I don't think I've ever seen anybody discuss modal income
A modal is an average, and actually the absolute opposite of random. They don't want to highlight modal, but they should. It is what most of the people take home whilst median is weighted upwards!
Mean, median, and mode are all different things.
Mean is the average. Mode is the most common.
Again, mode means nothing in a continuous distribution like income.