It's not math!

"It is a curious thing that interest in the teaching of statistics in schools, colleges and universities has sprung up worldwide as an extension of mathematics teaching, because I certainly feel that the practice of statistics is no closer to mathematics than cooking is to chemistry. Both mathematics and chemistry are reasonably precise subjects in their own ways, and in general what goes on in them both is repeatable; perhaps they are true sciences. On the other hand, statistics and cooking are as much arts as they are science, although both have strong links to their corresponding science: mathematics in the case of statistics, and chemistry in the case of cooking. Who would recommend that a chemistry teacher with no cooking experience be appointed cooking teacher as well?"

~ Terry Speed