Michael Stuart (statistician)

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Dr. Michael Stuart is Senior Lecturer in Statistics at Trinity College Dublin and Director of Studies for Management Science and Information Systems Studies. Dr. Stuart's current research interests focuses on the teaching of statistical problem solving without an over-dependence on mathematical reasoning, preferring instead a more intuitive, problem-solving approach.

Dr. Stuart is the author of the introductory statistics textbook Introduction to Statistical Analysis for Business and Industry, published by Arnold in 2003.

Dr. Stuart has also been known to utter amusing phrases during his class, intentionally or otherwise. Some examples have appeared in various places on the internet, and a sample are given below:

And, eh, as you can see there, there's, eh, nothing to see there.

Oh... They've, eh, changed this on me here.

Inflation is going to go through the roof, and we’ll all be snookered.

Economists are interested in that. Well, some of them are.

Whilst demonstrating a procedure on Minitab: A little window shows us these lads.

You’re away in a hack.

It’s dodgy when you’re using a…em…whatchumacallems?

They were only beginning to invent email back in 1983.

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