What does statistician mean?
Word: Statistician
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Statistician means a person whose job is to collect numbers and facts, study them and explain what they show, for example how many people live in a city or how often it rains in July.
How do you spell statistician?
Syllables: stat - is - ti - cian
Tricky part: The shun sound at the end is spelt cian, never tion or sion, because the word is built on statistic.
Watch out for: statistision, statician, statistican
Memory tip: Statistics is the subject and statistician the person, the way music gives musician and magic gives magician: the c stays and ian follows it.
Statistician in a sentence
Example 1: A statistician from the census office explained how every house in our lane would be counted.
Example 2: My aunt works as a statistician and turns long lists of numbers into charts that anyone can read.
Example 3: The weather department asked a statistician to compare fifty years of monsoon records.
Fun Fact
Statistics first meant facts about a state, such as how many people lived in it, and the word is linked to the Latin status, meaning state or condition.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) percentige
b) calculater
c) arithmatic
d) statistician
Show answer
d) statistician. Statistician has no slip; arithmetic, percentage and calculator each have one wrong vowel here.
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
stat_st_cian
a) i,e
b) e,i
c) a,i
d) i,i
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d) i,i. Say stat-is-ti-cian aloud: the same vowel fills both gaps.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
tsicanitsita
a) sanitation
b) statistician
c) situation
d) statistical
Show answer
b) statistician. There is a c but no l or o in the jumble, which rules out statistical, situation and sanitation.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. A statistician would be the right person to ____.
a) plant trees along the highway
b) find the average marks of a class
c) repair the cracks in a bridge
d) design the new school uniform
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b) find the average marks of a class
2. What does a statistician handle most of the working day?
a) medicines
b) machines
c) maps
d) data
Show answer
d) data
