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the median net wealth in the US is right around that $193k number, but the average is just over $1M, which is pretty amazing.

I’d say that the median is the average in this case. The mean usually works as a mathematical average, but in this example, it’s clearly skewed.

The difference isn’t between median and average, but between median and mean.

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