Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.'
To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.
To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician.
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.