Are statisticians sexy? Well, some are ...

Hal Varian, Chief Economist for Google, (pictured here) thinks being a statistician is a very sexy job. Here's what he had to say recently in McKinsey Quarterly: 

"I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians.

"People think I’m joking, but who would’ve guessed that computer engineers would’ve been the sexy job of the 1990s? The ability to take data—to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it—that’s going to be a hugely important skill in the next decades, not only at the professional level but even at the educational level for elementary school kids, for high school kids, for college kids.

"Because now we really do have essentially free and ubiquitous data. So the complimentary scarce factor is the ability to understand that data and extract value from it."

If that's the kind of thing that turns you on, read the full article at:

http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Hal_Varian_on_how_the_Web_challenges_managers_2286