Reenah Pap is a consulting analytical statistician with degrees from MIT and LSE who worked with Schmerzfeld in Basel and with Van Himst in Antwerp. We met for coffee and she told me her story. Corporations and political organizations hire her to produce statistics that prove the views and opinions they currently promote/advocate/support. In her downtime, she designs and produces dazzling head ornaments (below is "Glitter and Gold", her best seller). She is a ruthless mercenary who will deliver quotable stats shamelessly skewed toward the needs and views of her employer. Reenah uses her website https://reenahpapstats.blogspot.com/ to publish her own objective, impartial, well-researched, and stunning stats. She had years of great professional and financial success as her skills in "developing statistics" were in great demand, but Reenah now yearns to retire. She thinks of a hilltop at Altopascio (about halfway between Pistoia and Lucca) where 74.16% of people are kind and will bring her bread and wine, another 28.22% will also bring olives and 17.55% will also bring cheese.
What a great piece! An abundance of imagination and humour, I wonder if the person ( he, she or they) who wrote it , is not the same one who wrote the blog attributed to Reenah, both use the same random % numbers that do not add at 100 , just like the joke often heard at UT “ 80% of Americans do not know how to calculate percentage and the rest of 50% do not care”.
ReplyDeleteI love these squires and condensed character descriptions, full of subtle irony that fits so well!
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