[haberman]

> Statistics is the study of the collection, analysis, interpretation, presentation, and organization of data. Isn't that more or less what human brains do?

I think you have expanded the meaning of statistics beyond what is understood in the article. The originally understood meaning is "numerically/theoretically justifiable inferences given a set of input data." Now you're taking it to mean "any data-processing pipeline."

By this large and more abstract definition, here are some more things that are based on statistics:

    - tabloid newspapers
    - religious sermons
    - sundials
    - televisions