1.   Median earnings for college-educated African-American and white women were equal in most occupations.

2.   Of course, the professors were looking only for those technology companies that would beat the median earnings growth rate.

3.   The analysis of Cisco suggests that investors are betting, in effect, that the company will beat the median earnings growth rate by a factor of five.

4.   Worse, the median earnings of full-time male workers fell last year, despite plummeting unemployment rates.