A professor said her students think average Americans make six figures. That’s a long way off.

The question asked by Nina Strohminger to her students at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania was straightforward: What did they think the average American makes in annual wages?

Some of the answers, however, were not what the professor of legal studies and business ethics could have expected from one of America’s most prestigious business schools, she said.

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