True story: A few days ago, I was looking at college programs and saw that statistics was a different degree program entirely from math. That was weird.



I met yesterday with a high school math teacher. She has two math degrees, including a Master's, and she tells me that in all that, she only had two statistics classes. She went on to say that nearly every job advert for mathematicians is actually asking for a statistician.



Finally, she tells me, apparently there's a sibling rivalry between math and stats grads.



My take away? I want my kids to go into statistics, with a minor in world peace so that we can heal this gaping hole in our education system and make it easier for HR departments to advertise for the right people.