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In "Statistics for the terrified", the author (John Kranzler) claims that statisticians tend to have strange, long and difficult-to-pronounce surnames. I just compared the length of the surnames of statisticians to those of chemists, both from the lists on wikipedia: Welch Two Sample t-test data: nchar(statnames) and nchar(chemnames) t = -2.3269, df = 382.058, p-value = 0.02049 alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is not equal to 0 95 percent confidence interval: -0.6822772 -0.0573192 sample estimates: mean of x mean of y 6.644695 7.014493 So at least if compared to chemists, statisticians actually tend to have shorter names. Whether they are more strange and/or more difficult to pronounce I am not sure how to test. You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.