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Date:   Thu, 6 Aug 2009 13:27:02 -0400
Reply-To:   msz03@albany.edu
Sender:   "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:   Mike Zdeb <msz03@ALBANY.EDU>
Subject:   OT: for Statisticians
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hi ... neat article, "For Today’s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics"

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/technology/06stats.html?em

includes statisticians morphing from "dronish number nerds" to "cool" to "sexy" ... please, please, no more paparazzi, I have job to do

"... changing the image of the profession as a place for dronish number nerds. They are finding themselves increasingly in demand — and even cool. ' I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians,' said Hal Varian, chief economist at Google. 'And I’m not kidding.' ..."

-- Mike Zdeb U@Albany School of Public Health One University Place Rensselaer, New York 12144-3456 P/518-402-6479 F/630-604-1475

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