A statistician friend reports the following conversation at a dinner party:
My friend: “So what do you do?”
A good looking fellow: “I do modeling. What about you?”
My friend: “Actually, I do modeling too…”
Which reminds me . . . on Halloween I went out trick-or-treating straight from work. I decided to tell people I was dressed as a “dork.” Everyone was amused. But next year I want to do a real costume.
I forget who said this originally but I’ll use it anyway.
Mick Jagger is the only known case of the bumper sticker slogan: “Economists do it with models.”
Probably should have mentioned that Jagger started out studying at the London School of Economics.
“Model” is certainly a term of many meanings.
When I’d just read the title, I thought that it meant statistics models versus (for example) physics models, a topic that often confused people around climate, thinking that climate models work by just doing statistical curve-fitting of past data.
However, I’d forgotten that NYC features many other models.
One faculty’s wife used to tell people her husband modelled jeans (genes).
Another’s wife said that while her husband tried to minimize posterior loss, she (as a fitness instructor) tried to maximize it.
Next year I’m considering going as RMS.
I once had a very simple costume. I made a small sign that said “I’m a serial murderer. We look just like everyone else” and draped it on a string around my neck.
I like it how this post is filed under sociology.