Giovanni Parmigiani, a biostatistician at the Harvard School of Public Health, is a member of the SBoRE group.

乔瓦尼·帕尔米贾尼是哈佛大公共卫生院的生物计家、该委员会的成员。

Statisticians are well aware of the uncertainty.

计家很清楚这种不确定性。

Texas state demographers have observed an increase in immigrants from Asian countries and a decrease from Latin American countries -- especially Mexico.

德州的计家发现，来自亚洲国家的移民数量有所增加，而拉美国家(尤其是墨西哥)的移民数量有所减少。

For example, if you take a country like Argentina, calculations that were done by feminist economists and statisticians give us a figure of about seven percent of GDP.

例如，如果拿阿根廷这样的国家来说，女权主义经济家和计家计算给出的数字大约是占 GDP 的 7%。

Demographers have their hair on fire. This this is a big deal.

计家们都非常着急。这是件大。

Some demographers have decided that Millennials were born as early as 1977, while others extend their cut-off to as late as 1999.

一些计家认为千禧世代的出生年份最早可至 1977 年，而其他则认定结束年限最晚可至 1999 年。

This relatively huge increase has caught many demographers by surprise.

这种颇为可观的增加量使得许多计家感到很惊讶。

Britain's population, it turned out, was around 500,000 bigger than statisticians had thought.

结果显示英国比计家预计的竟多了约500，000。

Brett Furnas, a biostatistician at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

加州渔业和野生动物局的生物计家布雷特·福纳斯说到。

The statistician George Box famously said, " All models are wrong, but some are useful."

计家乔治·博克斯（George Box） 有句名言，“所有模型都是错误的， 但有些模型是有用的。”

The team included a meteorologist, a zoologist, a mineralogist, and an agricultural statistician.

该小组包括一名气象家、一名动物家、一名矿物家和一名农业计家。

America's statisticians, like those across the rich world, do not include house prices in inflation metrics: the thinking runs that house purchases are in large part an investment, rather than purely a consumption good.

美国的计家和其他发达国家的计家一样，没有将房价纳入通胀指标：们的想法是，买房在很大程度上不是纯粹的消费品，而是一种投资。

Trude Lappegard, a Norwegian demographer, says that her country's baby bust, which has been going on for six years, might be easy to explain if it had hit one group especially hard.

一位来自挪威名叫褚德兰培格的计家说道，该国的生育低谷已经持续六年，这可能很容易的解释成是否是特别严重的冲击了某个阶层的女性。

One paper by statisticians at America's Bureau of Labour Statistics found that, across a variety of measures including pay, benefits, job security and safety, " many industries within services equal or exceed manufacturing."

美国劳工计局的计家发表的一篇论文发现，在包括薪酬、福利、工作稳定性和安全在内的各种指标中，“服务业中的许多行业等于或超过了制造业”。

On May 5th America's statisticians revealed that these rose by 7% in the first quarter, compared with a year ago, up from a pre-pandemic average of around 2%.

5月5日，美国计家透露，与前一年相比，今年第一季度的单位劳动力成本增长了7%，高于疫情前约2%的平均水平。

The UN's population demographer, Gerhard Heilig, accepted that it is impossible to know accurately who carries the honour as the figures come with a 1-2% margin of error.

联合国计家格哈德·海利希表示我们无法确切地知道哪个婴儿应该享有这项荣誉，因为数据会有1-2%的误差。

Demographers say the United States may be entering an era of substantially lower population growth due to a leveling off of immigration, a declining birthrate and an aging population.

计家表示，由于移民趋于平稳，出生率下降和老龄化，美国可能正在进入一个增长大幅下降的时代。

Why are statisticians not measuring that? Why are we not thinking of the progress of nations in these terms, instead of just how much stuff we have?

为什么计家不衡量这些标准？为什么我们不从这些标准来考虑国家的进步，取而代之的是我们生产的东西？

Jennifer Glass, a demographer at the University of Texas at Austin, notes that some countries have tried to boost their birthrates by urging citizens to get busy.

德克萨斯大奥斯汀分校的计家詹妮弗·格拉斯指出，一些国家试图通过敦促公民积极行动起来以提高出生率。

The information is likely to be used for redistricting of state populations in favor of the Republican Party, says demographer William Frey.

计家威廉姆·弗雷说，这些信息可能会被用来重新划分州，使之有利于共和党。