Averages are like the economic man; they are inventions, not real. When applied to salaries they hide gaunt poverty at the lower end.


Address and Proceedings of the Fifty-Seventh Annual Meeting (Volume 57), The Children's Bureau (p. 115), National Educational Association of America. Washington, D.C. 1919

Julia Lathrop Quotes

Averages are like the economic man; they are inventions, not real. When applied to salaries they hide gaunt poverty at the lower end.

Averages are like the economic man; they are inventions, not real. When applied to salaries they hide gaunt poverty at the lower end.

Averages are like the economic man; they are inventions, not real. When applied to salaries they hide gaunt poverty at the lower end.

Averages are like the economic man; they are inventions, not real. When applied to salaries they hide gaunt poverty at the lower end.