An Excellent Article

[pun23]

An Excellent Article published in this month's The Actuary magazine.

Batting on a statisticky wicket Jurie Nel puts forward a classification scheme for the consistency of cricket batsmen.
When a cricketer goes out to bat, his career statistics are shown on the television screen. The most important figure quoted is his average score, but nothing is

Comments

[balaji_b]

Arite. As a start, Jurie Nel ?? South African?? I dont see anyone else insane enough to include both Gibbs and Smith as the world's premier batsmen. And again, Strauss, who recently murdered the Proteas in their den. But anyway, assuming the entire article was well-intended

[pun23]

If I add a mathematical statement : "10 random batsmen were picked and checked for consistency coefficients".
Now does the aticle make sense?
The aim of the article was to moot a consistency coefficient, not to pick top 10 batsmen!!

[balaji_b]

Aaah, random batsmen, my bad. But geez, you statisticians hunt in packs or what !!

[pun23]

Dont call me a statistician or an accountant. NEVER :). I am above all of them, like my friend Jurie Nel. We are Actuaries :)

http://www.beanactuary.org/news/hotjobs.cfm

http://www.beanactuary.org/about/best_job.cfm

[balaji_b]

Arite arite, now dont rub it in. We still run the world.

[pun23]

run or ruin?? :)

[anand]

when you are running the world you have the luxury/liberty of ruining it too ;)! Geeks rule :D.

Btw I get your point when you get appalled when someone calls you a statistician or acountant, its like someone saying "oh! you mean youre in tech support" to a coder! Aaaargh! damn ignorance! ...........specially when youre running the world ;)