I'm not a statistician, but it doesn't take a genious to work out that 100 million children being denied an education is ridiculous. There is nothing lost in translation here, it's obvious that's wrong.
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
One thing about cold weather: it brings out the statistician in everyone.
The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process.
I may remark parenthetically that the modern apparatus of the theory of small samples, once it goes beyond the determination of its own specially defined parameters and becomes a method for positive statistical inference in new cases, does not inspire me with any confidence unless it is applied by a statistician by whom the main elements of the dynamics of the situation are either explicitly known or implicitly felt.
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.
The median isn't the message.
The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.
Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.
If a chess statistician were to try and satisfy his curiousity over which stage of the game proved decisive in the majority of cases, he would certainly come to the conclusion that it is the middlegame that provides the most decisive stage.
This spiritualist, this statistician, what are you anyway?
Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides-that of the breeder, the experimenter, the statistician, the physiologist, the embryologist, the cytologist-but the mechanism of heredity can be studied best by the investigation of the germ cells and their development.
Don't be a novelist --- be a statistician. Much more scope for the imagination.
Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.
