Three people are stranded on a small island. One is a physicist, one is a circus strongman, and one is a statistician. After a few days of surviving on fruit, they discover a cache of canned food. They have to decide how to open it. They find accounting too exciting.
Statistics are like a bikini.
What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. Aaron Levenstein A statistician is someone who can draw a mathematically exact line from an unwarranted assumption to a foregone conclusion. One day there was a fire in a wastebasket in the dean's office and in rushed a physicist, a chemist, and a statistician. The physicist immediately starts to work on how much energy would have to be removed from the fire to stop the combustion. The chemist works on which regent would have to be added to the fire to prevent oxidation.