George Brett

Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.

American Athlete

Anna Quindlen

If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.

American Journalist

Terence Tao

Most students who take math classes aren't going to be mathematicians. They're going to be engineers, statisticians - in many ways, that's the more important mission of math education.

Australian Mathematician

Ronald Fisher

To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.

English Mathematician

Steven Pinker

Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.

Canadian Scientist

Evan Esar

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

American Writer

E. M. Forster

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

English Novelist

Tom Rath

The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician.

American Author

Anthony Goldbloom

Our view is that the very best data miners or statisticians can earn as much as the very best golfers or tennis players.

American Businessman

Rob Lowe

Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.

American Actor

Statisticians are often found in academic or research settings, implying expertise in analysis.

Work Environment

The word emphasizes their skillfulness in handling statistics over just performing routine tasks.

Skill Emphasis

While 'statistician' implies working with numbers, they also make predictions and inform decisions.

Job Role

Government or business statisticians focus on data that shapes economic or policy decisions.

Data Relevance

The work of statisticians in this context often affects many people through policies or services.

Real World Impact

A government statistician's work contributes to official reports and hence carries authority.

Government Role

 between what people perceive and the reality, the fact that people are actually pretty poor intuitive statisticians. And there are many reasons for this. Individual experiences, certainly, can influence our perceptions, but so, too, can things like the media reporting things by exception, rather than what's normal.

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 them into the graphic formats where you can instantly understand them now the statisticians doesn't like it because they say that this will not this will not show the the reality we have to have statistical analytical methods but this is hypothesis-generating I end now with a world where the

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 to get them into the graphic formats, where you can instantly understand them. Now, statisticians don't like it, because they say that this will not show the reality; we have to have statistical, analytical methods. But this is hypothesis-generating. I end now with the world.

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 than all the speakers before me and all the ones coming after me. One of my senior colleagues told me, when I was a youngster in this profession, rather proudly, that statisticians were people who liked figures but didn't have the personality skills to become accountants.

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 feels especially important for us all to hear, especially now, when so many of the world's problems seem to be because we keep focusing on the things that make us different, not on what binds us together. And look -- I am the first to admit that I am not a statistician,

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 other cities counties and states and what we've done with a lot of smart data scientists fabulous researchers and really brilliant statisticians is we've built a risk assessment tool that every judge in the United States can use and they can use this very simple tool to

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 It still feels surreal to this day, and it was amazing. We found our needle in the Sahara. I'm glad I'm not a statistician and thinking about the odds that were stacked against us. You know, I just thought we'll try. So we found the site.

Nizar Ibrahim: Lost...

 in mathematics and statistics than it is for mathematicians and statisticians to find scientists able to make use of their equations. It is important in choosing the direction to take in science

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 he would be asking statisticians such as myself to go out and find out what makes life worthwhile. He'd be asking us to redesign our national accounting system to be based upon

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 What is proof? And why is it so important in mathematics? Proofs provide a solid foundation for mathematicians logicians, statisticians, economists, architects, engineers,