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Gender pay gaps A median‐sized problem
Author(s) -
Marriott Nigel
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2019.01302.x
Subject(s) - rss , quality (philosophy) , medicine , psychology , computer science , epistemology , philosophy , operating system
In April 2019, the Royal Statistical Society published 10 recommendations to improve the quality of gender pay gap reporting. Nigel Marriott , who helped the RSS write the recommendations, explains the thinking behind the second and sixth recommendations, concerning the widely misunderstood statistical concept of the median