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Originally Posted by Superman
Statistics is math, in every sense. It is based on probability. The Central Limit Theorem, for example, is a discovery, not an invention. Manipulation of people is not statistics, and not limited to statistics. Any "math" can be used to manipulate, as can non-math information. My business card says "statistician."
My path was similar to Vash's. For a time, I was not trying to understand math. I was just studying enough to pass the tests. That got harder and harder, so I decided to actually learn it. Math became lots more interesting once I actually understood what the formulas were doing. For example, the integral is a way of measuring the area under a curve by creating a series of rectangles of that area, and then collapsing those rectangles so they are infinitely thin and there is an infinite number of them.
It is unsurprising to me that actual mathematicians/actuaries work on theorems in their minds with their spare time. It is fun.
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“There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.” ― Benjamin Disraeli tags: attributed-no-source, lies, lying, misattributed-mark-twain, statistics, truth
So, if your business card reads (not says, unless it's audio :P ) "statistician," I take that to mean you have attained the highest degree of liar?
Perhaps I misstated my view of statistics...some maths require very difficult formulas and lots of work (some problems in my Boolean algebra course would take 5 pages to fully flesh out). Statistics was boringly easy (as a class).