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pivantun t1_it9cloh wrote

Reply to comment by pweez in [OC] Average Airbnb cleaning fees for 12 cities around the world. Austin, TX leads. by robert_ritz

If you read the OP's blog post, he explains that it's an average. There are a lot of listings with $150 cleaning fees, but there are also a lot with $0 cleaning fees (and presumably higher nightly rates that compensate).

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vacri t1_itb6s86 wrote

In which case the data would be better represented as "percentage of listings with cleaning fees" and "average cost of cleaning fee if there is one"

Otherwise it's an exercise in misleading statistics.

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pivantun t1_itcb012 wrote

Yeah, although that is how averages work. It's important people understand this when they look at data.

Personally I think it's much worse that the OP doesn't control for unit size. (In the article, he says he collected that data, but didn't mention doing anything with it.) There's a huge difference in the effort to clean/launder a 3-bedroom house say, and a studio.

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