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Article: In D.C., Statisticians Flex Their Strength in Numbers
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- The Washington Post
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- August 5, 2009
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Real superheroes, most people know, skip the capes and tights.
Too bulky, too flashy, spandex doesn't breathe well, etc.
Which is why they can be easy to miss when they're in town, even
when there are 6,000 of them, super-number crunchers, data heroes,
with powers of finding meaning in digits far beyond those of mortal
men and women.
The 6,000 is just rough data, not accounting for last-minute
arrivals. Their median annual income is $65,720. Their employment is
expected to grow 9 percent by 2016.
That's not even getting into their standard deviations.
Ladies and gentlemen: statisticians. At the Washington Convention
Center this week for the Joint Statistical Meetings, the largest ...