| Leslie Moonves | CBS | Television network | $57.7 million |
| Adam S. Metz | General Growth | Commercial leasing | $53.3 million |
When compared to the earnings of this elite group, the earnings of the remaining CEOs appear downright reasonable. The tallest bar at the far left of the histogram represents CEOs who made less than $2.5 million. That group accounts for about one-third of the cases shown in Figure 1, but we can barely see them in the boxplot because they are squeezed together at the left margin.
The skewness in the histogram affects numerical summaries as well. 
When data are highly skewed, we have to be very careful interpreting summary statistics ...
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