A person whose job is statistics — designing how data gets collected, then working out what it honestly means.

A person whose job is statistics工作是統計學的人——designing how data gets collected負責設計怎麼蒐集資料，then working out what it honestly means然後老實地弄清楚資料真正代表什麼意思。

Countable noun, and the stress falls on the -ti- : sta-tis-TI-cian.

Countable noun可數名詞，and the stress falls on the -ti-重音在 -ti- 上：sta-tis-TI-cian唸法是 sta-tis-TI-cian。

It is a real profession, not just "someone good at maths." Statisticians work for governments counting the population, for hospitals testing whether a treatment works, for insurance companies, for sports teams, and increasingly in tech. A big part of the job is the unglamorous half — spotting when a number is misleading, when a sample was badly chosen, when two things move together without one causing the other.

It is a real profession是個真正的職業，not just "someone good at maths."不只是「數學很好的人」。Statisticians work for governments counting the population統計學家會替政府做人口普查，for hospitals testing whether a treatment works替醫院測試治療有沒有效，for insurance companies替保險公司，for sports teams替運動隊伍做事，and increasingly in tech而且在科技業也越來越常見。A big part of the job is the unglamorous half這工作有一大部分是不起眼的苦工——spotting when a number is misleading找出數字什麼時候會誤導人，when a sample was badly chosen樣本什麼時候選得不好，when two things move together without one causing the other兩件事一起變動卻不是誰造成誰的時候。

Note the -ian ending: it marks a person who does something, and English uses it for a lot of skilled trades — musician, technician, physician, electrician, librarian.

Note the -ian ending要注意 -ian 這個字尾：it marks a person who does something它標記做某件事的人，and English uses it for a lot of skilled trades英文裡很多專業工作都用它——musician, technician, physician, electrician, librarianmusician（音樂家）、technician（技師）、physician（內科醫生）、electrician（電工）、librarian（圖書館員）。

Say "a statistician," not "a statistic person." These days you will often hear data scientist for closely related work; statistician is the older word and leans more toward mathematical training.

Say "a statistician,"要說 "a statistician"，not "a statistic person."不要說 "a statistic person"。These days you will often hear data scientist for closely related work現在很常聽到用 data scientist 稱呼很類似的工作；statistician is the older wordstatistician 是比較舊的說法，and leans more toward mathematical training比較偏向數學訓練出身。