One of my senior colleagues told me, when I was a youngster in this profession, rather proudly, that statisticians were people who liked figures but didn't have the personality skills to become accountants.
Uno de mis colegas me dijo, cuando yo era un novato en esta profesión, orgullosamente, que los estadísticos eran personas a quienes les gustaban los números pero no tenían la personalidad para ser contables.