Thursday, August 19, 2010

Top 10

Top 10 Reasons to be a Statistician


10. Deviation is considered normal
9. You feel complete and sufficient
8. You always wanted to learn the entire Greek alphabet anyway
7. You can legally comment on someone's posterior distribution
6. You may not be normal but you are transformable
5. You never have to say you are certain
4. You are honestly significantly different
3. You never have to be right - only close
2. Estimating parameters is easier than dealing with real life
1. Statisticians are normal, everyone else is skewed

1 comment:

fern said...

the ###1 reason- we love dorky daughters the most!! thanks for making me the smartest mom on the block--- cuz i have the smartest kids!!