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The Macrotechnicians are a young Methodology of Iteration X focused on architecture and other large-scale construction techniques.
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The Statisticians are a Methodology of Iteration X focused on forecasting and modeling future events.
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They focus on the Spheres of Entropy and Time.
  
 
==History==
 
==History==
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The Methodology traces its roots back to the same builders, artificers, and engineers the rest of the Convention does. In the Renaissance and after, the High Artisans moved away from studies of civic engineering, metallurgy, and material science, leaving such things for their Craftmason cousins, and instead favored micro-architecture, computers, and cyborg science. Until recently, material engineering languished as a pastime for engineers among the Sleepers while It-Xers focused on computing and number-crunching.
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The Statisticians claim to be the oldest methodology of their convention. Tracing their roots back to the ancient Greeks and Chinese thinkers who first codified their observations of nature into a system from which similar phenomena could also be classified, the Statisticians seek to unravel all that is unknown and fit it into their schemata.
  
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With the pause in the Pogrom and the re-emphasis on human achievement, many Iterators have also stepped back from computer and weapons design, returning to substance analysis and development. The Hardsuit program, which replaces HIT Marks, requires new advances in materials, chemicals, biorecycling systems, and power supplies. Initiatives to end urban problems, reduce pollution, and find alternatives to current devices need innovators in large scale construction and vehicle engineering.
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Few Statisticians made it into history books because it's difficult to hide one’s advantages in prediction and modeling from the Sleeper. It's more than possible that stories about great seers and their fantastic methods of throwing bones and other objects, writing strange languages, and putting together extremely complex astrological charts were, in fact, confounded tales of early Statisticians and not actually stories about soothsayers and witches. From the vague accounts of their abilities and methods it can be hard to say, but the power to tell the future by studying strange, obscure patterns certainly sounds like the modus operandi of the Statisticians.  
  
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Founded in 2000 when the Convention finally recognized the need for a specific categorization of its engineers, mechanics, maintenance crews, chemists, and architects, the Methodology was born by separating out TM Managers and BioMechanics with these skills. While the initial split was hard and caused them to lose Syndicate funding, they quickly proved themselves and when it was recognized that all future Devices would be coming from them, their budget octupled.
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The Statisticians claim the invention of multiple calendars as their own, as a way to channel and control the previously uncontrolled and often contradictory flow of time. Their predictive modelling has foreseen numerous technological advancements that were later implemented by the Time Table, ranging from the theory of the earth ellipsoid to the image of the human brain as a computer.
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At the turn of the millenium, the Statisticians predicted a 75% chance of a global disaster in which the Masses would destroy themselves over the course of 10 years. With the loss of Autochthonia and its highest personell in the wake of the Reckoning, the remaining Statisticians focus on the tools they have at hand.
  
 
==Culture==
 
==Culture==
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Macrotechnicians rarely, if ever, create a new thing. Instead, they rethink what is and figure out how to do it better. To this end they often work with the Void Engineers' R&E, the NWO's Q Division, and more recently the Deviancy Scene Investigators of the Progenitors. The Methodology is split right down the middle, though, between the scientists and engineers on one side and the field agents on the other. The first tend to use computer modeling and heavy industry while the latter – technicians and combat engineers – take the tech into the front lines.
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The Statisticians are often stereotyped as a "mission control" of the activities of other Iterators. Their critics claim that the approach is fundamentally flawed. Human behaviour and chance cannot be quantified and their directives harm an individual agents' ability to react with initiative and ingenuity. To counter that, the Statisticians often send people into field work to collect the data they analyze and not relying on second-hand infos.
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The Macrotechnicians are in a peculiar spot in the Convention. As a new Methodology, most of the higher-ups are all from either the TM Managers or the BioMchanics and bring those insights to their procedures. The TMMs insist they are necessary especially as the other Methodologies become more specialized. Someone has to do the hands-on work. They can at times, though, be seen as rejects from the other methodologies and it can lead to strong rivalries. The relations can be especially hard with the BioMechanics because the tools they make can often make biomechanical devices redundant or obsolete. Some whisper that making the new Methodology was a ploy to get more funding for non-cybernetic projects. Macrotechnicians are also often the recipients of elitist prejudice as they are seen to be working with "simplistic sciences" rather than "cutting edge computers" which the Convention has focused on for so long.
 
  
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The Methodology does have a particular culture as well. They are more likely to reject the use of Implants. The have a pretty tightly-knit hierarchy. They also enjoy sharing their work both through academic papers and working together in their labs.
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In contrast to the other Methodologies of Iteration X, which often focus on hard sciences, Statisticians recruit themselves often from soft sciences. Sociology, anthropology, economics and political science, as well as mathematics are favored fields of research. The methodology understands that a broad spectrum of knowledge is needed for their projects and encourages cross-specializations and multi-focus.
  
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For all its struggles, the Methodology is proving itself time and again as a critically important part of the Convention.
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The Statisticians also have the task of keeping their Convention clean of infiltration, particularly from Nephandi and Infernalists. Using only deductive reasoning and not relying on spheres for this work, Statisticians have proven themselves hard to be fooled.

Latest revision as of 10:43, 13 October 2021

Iteration X

The Statisticians are a Methodology of Iteration X focused on forecasting and modeling future events.

They focus on the Spheres of Entropy and Time.

History

The Statisticians claim to be the oldest methodology of their convention. Tracing their roots back to the ancient Greeks and Chinese thinkers who first codified their observations of nature into a system from which similar phenomena could also be classified, the Statisticians seek to unravel all that is unknown and fit it into their schemata.

Few Statisticians made it into history books because it's difficult to hide one’s advantages in prediction and modeling from the Sleeper. It's more than possible that stories about great seers and their fantastic methods of throwing bones and other objects, writing strange languages, and putting together extremely complex astrological charts were, in fact, confounded tales of early Statisticians and not actually stories about soothsayers and witches. From the vague accounts of their abilities and methods it can be hard to say, but the power to tell the future by studying strange, obscure patterns certainly sounds like the modus operandi of the Statisticians.

The Statisticians claim the invention of multiple calendars as their own, as a way to channel and control the previously uncontrolled and often contradictory flow of time. Their predictive modelling has foreseen numerous technological advancements that were later implemented by the Time Table, ranging from the theory of the earth ellipsoid to the image of the human brain as a computer.

At the turn of the millenium, the Statisticians predicted a 75% chance of a global disaster in which the Masses would destroy themselves over the course of 10 years. With the loss of Autochthonia and its highest personell in the wake of the Reckoning, the remaining Statisticians focus on the tools they have at hand.

Culture

The Statisticians are often stereotyped as a "mission control" of the activities of other Iterators. Their critics claim that the approach is fundamentally flawed. Human behaviour and chance cannot be quantified and their directives harm an individual agents' ability to react with initiative and ingenuity. To counter that, the Statisticians often send people into field work to collect the data they analyze and not relying on second-hand infos.

In contrast to the other Methodologies of Iteration X, which often focus on hard sciences, Statisticians recruit themselves often from soft sciences. Sociology, anthropology, economics and political science, as well as mathematics are favored fields of research. The methodology understands that a broad spectrum of knowledge is needed for their projects and encourages cross-specializations and multi-focus.

The Statisticians also have the task of keeping their Convention clean of infiltration, particularly from Nephandi and Infernalists. Using only deductive reasoning and not relying on spheres for this work, Statisticians have proven themselves hard to be fooled.

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