And as a great statistician and predictor and foreteller, or prophet, more literarily, I can picture a future that will be doomed to me in a billing cycle of my credit card.
It is less well suited to making the kinds of unambiguous, objective, potentially consensus-forming claims about society that statisticians and economists are paid for.
Government statisticians also revised data for the previous year and found that at year-end there were 266,000 more jobs than had previously been thought.
Government statisticians use models to adjust the raw data for seasonally recurring effects, such as extra-strong retail sales in December or slack construction in the winter.