Statisticians are those who play with the numbers to find out what’s actually happening. Sounds like an odd thing to do but that really is it. We can collect all sorts of numbers about pretty much anything. But we need to go through a series of tests to find out whether they are in fact meaningful: that’s called passing a statistical significance test. This is the sort of thing that statisticians do for their living. Collect the numbers about whatever it is that is of interest, then process them to see what they say, then test them to see whether what is being said is significant, or just a product of random noise or chance. As such it’s a branch of mathematics really, and I think you can see pretty clearly that by the standards of our EQSQ personality tests this is really a job or career for the male brain types, the systemizers.
While there are a few job openings for those with just the one college degree, a Batchelor’s, there aren’t that many. It almost always requires a further college degree to even get hired, let alone move on up the career ladder to more interesting or more important jobs. Most of those entry level jobs, the ones requiring only the one degree, are with the Federal Government.

So is all that training worth it, if you’ve got the right type of systemizing mind? Could be, it’s your choice of course, but the BLS tells us that entry level salaries are a little over $43,000 and the average is some $59,000. That’s worth a college degree or two, don’t you think?