When the arithmetic mean is used to calculate this, it can be misleading because the salaries can be widely spread. Thus it may happen that 10% of the class have gotten excellent job offers while half the class is without jobs. Even in such a scenario, the mean salary can be a good number, but it hides facts behind it.
âGame of Thrones is a piece of the puzzle,â Pursel said. Time Warner owns HBO, which owns the television rights to the GOT franchise. In early February 2014, Time Warner formally released financial results for HBO. For 2013, HBOâs revenues were $4.9 billion with operating income of $1.7 billion.
$257 billion. If this figure represented a countryâs GDP, it would rank 41st in the world, about the same as Chile. Instead, $257 billion is the profit made in 2014 by public companies involved in extracting, transporting, refining, distributing and trading in fossil fuels in the United States and Canada.