无论是在中国,还是在外国,与其它行当相比,统计成为人们调侃对象的机会似乎更多一些。在国内,统计的地位不高,这是不争的事实。在遗存着浓厚的官本位传统的国度里,地位高不高,最灵验的就是看看干部调动的意愿。有的干部平调到统计部门,就被认为降了职,或“虚起来了”,这时当事 There seems to be more opportunity for statistics to be a target for people to laugh at, whether in China or abroad. In China, the status of statistics is not high, this is an indisputable fact. In the country where there is a strong tradition of official standards, the status is not high and the most exalted is to look at the will of cadres to mobilize. Some cadres flatly transferred to the statistical department, it is considered downgraded, or “virtual up,” when the parties