Consulting
These are some thoughts for now:
I have been providing consulting primarily in the use of statistics in a variety of settings.
Role of the Statistician as Consultant
Whether it is you trying to work with your own studies and be a statistician to yourself OR if you are working with someone else's efforts at collecting data
You Are Acting As The Voice Of The Data
By this I mean that you are effectively interviewing the data, attempting to understand what it is trying to communicate about the source from which it came. You need to be aware of the nuances. Just as when you have a verbal conversation there is much more than what would be just with those same words on a piece of paper. This is especially true when it is presented live with e sound and expression. Just seeing the numbers on paper does not provide the extra information that is now lost.
I have also had a sense that for many people there is a kind of Religion of Statistics.
I have been providing consulting primarily in the use of statistics in a variety of settings.
Role of the Statistician as Consultant
Whether it is you trying to work with your own studies and be a statistician to yourself OR if you are working with someone else's efforts at collecting data
You Are Acting As The Voice Of The Data
By this I mean that you are effectively interviewing the data, attempting to understand what it is trying to communicate about the source from which it came. You need to be aware of the nuances. Just as when you have a verbal conversation there is much more than what would be just with those same words on a piece of paper. This is especially true when it is presented live with e sound and expression. Just seeing the numbers on paper does not provide the extra information that is now lost.
I have also had a sense that for many people there is a kind of Religion of Statistics.