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The Top Ten Reasons to Become a Statistician

The Top Ten Reasons to Become a Statistician:

  • 10. Deviation is considered normal.

  • 9. We feel complete and sufficient.

  • 8. We are mean lovers.

  • 7. Statisticians do it discretely and continuously.

  • 6. We are right 95 percent of the time.

  • 5. We can safely comment on someone's posterior distribution.

  • 4. We may not be normal but we are transformable.

  • 3. We never have to say we are certain.

  • 2. We are honestly significantly different.

  • 1. No one wants our jobs.

  • http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v10n3/friedman.html


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