Tuesday, January 29

number 2 job according to MSNBC: Mathematician.

7 comments:

Michael said...

they're off by 1

no sleep till poland said...

Statistician came in 4th...are stats people looked down upon in the math dept?

Zzzzz said...

guy in a dog-suit isn't even listed

what is this crap?

Michael said...

no sleep,

yes and no, its an applied subject as opposed to a pure subject and as such you'll get people who think one way or the other about it.

I think purists (like me) tend to write off the applied people because what they do tends do be a bit easier and they make way more money so I think if anything its really boils down to an issue of jealousy.

Analogy, struggling jazz musician "looks down on" pop star

As for me, stats doesn't interest me as a subject but what you can do with data analysis is amazing (cf nate silver)

no sleep till poland said...

hahahha you'll always be a [gay] pop star in my eyes

no sleep till poland said...

cf boy george

Michael said...

cf you just reminded me of the wedding singer, classic