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No, really, some of my best friends are data scientists.

Ha. Also, I am super proud to come from this department (and super glad I made it through). I really think it offers one of the best critical, analytical and comprehensive educations around. Think about it: stats is a cocktail of mathematics, philosophy, rhetoric, real-world problems, communication, programming. Those who think that a statistics education is basically "a sub-cabalistic ritual of manipulating sums of squares and magical tables according to rules justified (if at all) only by a transparently false origin myth" are really missing the point. ;)