Saturday 13 April 2013

WHO IS THE AVERAGE AUSTRALIAN?


According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics Social Trends:


Much has been made in the media about the specific characteristics of this 37 year-old Australian-born married woman, living with her husband and two children (a boy and a girl aged nine and six) in a three bedroom $1,800 a month mortgaged house in the suburbs of a capital city while working as a sales assistant - with little mention of the fact that 'she' probably doesn't exist in the flesh as an average over such diverse demographic sets will almost inevitably produce a statistical myth.

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