They don't struggle with it you pompous clown, you just want a different message conveyed, you went on TV pre GE2020 to insist the average wage was a great indicator of how people were doing, now you suddenly dislike averages because you know it means political pressure
In fairness to RTE, they corrected the headline but this has happened several times before. The fact that so many editors, politicians and commentators struggle with basic maths and statistics is not an abstract problem. If they don't understand the numbers presented to them, they draw the wrong conclusions and risk making the wrong decisions.