Excerpt from Statistical Work: A Study of Opportunities for Women
During the past decade the profession of statistics has abruptly changed some of its most time honored characteristics. For nearly two centuries it had maintained a studious and somewhat secluded existence, with relatively few members, generally high standards, and a record of continuous achievement. Its members found their rewards largely in the satisfaction that comes from good workmanship and in the respectful recognition of fellow workers in their craft, for the material returns were of modest proportions.
In the past ten years much of this has changed. The number of statistical workers has greatly increased in countries throughout the world and the expansion of the profession has been especially rapid in the United States. This sudden growth has been largely due to the advent of the business statistician, but other clearly defined groups such as the economic statisticians, the educational statisticians, and the financial statisticians have grown to such proportions as to demand separate recognition and in some instances to form national organizations.
This increase in the numbers and importance of the profession is permanent, and further growth is certain. In this country the great war marked the end of the age of haphazard in business, financial, and governmental thinking. We have entered upon a long era of fundamental changes in economics, trade, and human relations. Under these new conditions people require a fact-basis for their thinking and their planning and in ever increasing measure they must turn to the statisticians for the interpretation and presentation of the new and unforeseen facts emerging on every hand and demanding attention.
Statistics is a method by which social facts are studied. It proceeds through the steps of analytic scrutiny, exact measuring, careful recording, and judgment on the basis of numerical evidence. In the past ten years its methods for dealing with its materials have been so greatly improved and extended that it can interpret conditions, measure relationships, and even venture into the field of prophecy, with an accuracy and definiteness that were formerly quite unattainable.
The present volume deals with opportunities for women workers in this field.
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