Reply #2: My job is in Administration in the Department of Statistics in UC Berkeley [View All]

[lunatica]

The Commencement speaker a couple of years ago told the graduating class that Statisticians will always find employment because everything is about numbers, percentages and trends. Every time we see numbers like these it means statistics is being used and it's being used by professional Statisticians.

I've often thought of those words. I think the Commencement Speaker was right. We are deluged with numbers, averages, polls, figures and statistical analysis on a daily basis. We take it for granted, without even thinking of who and how these numbers are picked or of how they get gathered.