Love/hate relationship with numbers

Recently my daughter told me she hated numbers and math. We were talking about being a financial auditor. I had to agree with her. It feels like my head will explode when I sit for very long in front of a spreadsheet ensuring that all the numbers are accurate and add up.

But I love numbers when they can illustrate a story or a concept. And that's why I like performance auditing. In performance auditing, the goal isn't to just opine on the accuracy of numbers (although we do make sure of reliability before we conclude), the numbers tell you how important a finding is or communicate new perspectives.

Here's an example - Don't jump to conclusions about the census.