In my opinion... Bullshit jobs in statistics

摘要

Nearly 20 years ago I signed up for a conversion course in applied statistics, thinking a career as a statistician would allow me to sidestep the kind of pointless activity that, according to the anthropologist David Graeber, defines a "bullshit job". I was wrong. In business at least, meaningless employment is as prevalent among statisticians as it is among any other profession - it is just a little harder to spot.