Date:         Thu, 6 Aug 2009 13:27:02 -0400
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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.' ..."

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