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Re:“So many people spend their working lives doing jobs they... by stillsut on Sunday March 22, 2015 @09:30AM (#9246669)
Actuary here: only 5% of billable-hours go into the concept of the math and probability behind setting appropriate price.

95% of the work involves translating the messiness of real-world into the model-based world. This is the type of thing that's obliviously difficult to automate: e.g. more difficult to build a robot-nurse than a robot-surgeon.

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Re:“So many people spend their working lives doing jobs they... by a3n on Sunday March 22, 2015 @12:24PM (#9247298)
Yes, as I was following this subthread, I imagined that an actuary's real job was to recognize and model things to be insured or otherwise predicted. The math is just the executive summary.
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