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		dcre 58 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Shiller PE Ratio Average and mean are the same thing. I assume you meant median. It’s similar in this case, but it’s really more like the different between the average of the full list of companies and the average of the full list of companies with the top few hundred removed.

zhengyi13 58 days ago [–]

Ahh, thank you, yes - median. Thank you as well for the explanation.

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