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You've just taken us back to the start of our exchange. Will this never end??????

Your £185K figure, as used in the links you have posted is a median average. Using the median to make a point can easily lead to false conclusions.

The mean average for Scotland is around £216K. Using the mean can also lead to false conclusions but the mean is what people commonly think of when they see the word 'average in this context - not median and not mode (God help us!)

The mean average in Edinburgh is over £300K. The mean average in East Lothian is also over £300K. The mean average in Midlothian is over £230K and the mean average in West Lothian is over £200K. I suspect those figures will be more relatable to the majority of posters on here than your scottish median average is. Does that sound fair enough?
"The mean is typically better when the data follow a symmetric distribution. When the data are skewed, the median is more useful because the mean will be distorted by outliers.”


Sounds like median is a better method where edinburgh and Aberdeen are skewed one way while Inverclyde and east ayrshire are skewed the other. If government use a particular method there's probably a good reason.