If you love sta­tis­tics (don’t we all?) and can write Chi­nese (which rules me out), you might like to con­tribute to the Chi­nese National Bureau of Sta­tis­tics cel­e­bra­tions of the 60th anniver­sary of the “found­ing of New China”. They are call­ing for sub­mis­sions of prose, poetry or song which will “enhance people’s patri­otic feel­ings, sta­tis­tics and con­fi­dence”. Here is an Eng­lish trans­la­tion of the page.

Some fur­ther trans­la­tions are on the WSJ page.

I espe­cially like this sec­tion from “Love the Home­land, Love Statistics”:

Because of sta­tis­tics
I can solve the deep­est mys­ter­ies
Because of sta­tis­tics
I will not be lonely again, play­ing in the data
Because of sta­tis­tics
I can rearrange the stars in the skies above
Because of sta­tis­tics
My life is dif­fer­ent, more mean­ing­ful
I love my life, my statistics

Ah. We’re an emo­tional lot really.

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