Any aspie quantitative analysts out there?

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30 Dec 2008, 10:32 am

No, I am not one myself, nor do I have any chance of ever becoming one.

I'm just wondering if there are any aspie quantitative analysts ("quants") on this board, or if anyone knows of any.

In fact, I'm curious to know if you guys think it's something an aspie could even do. I remember reading an article by Temple Grandin where she suggests that financial jobs such as futures trading would be "impossible" for aspies and autists (because of short-term memory problems etc). Perhaps life as a quant is not so hectic, even though the hours are apparently just as long.

I was thinking of putting this in the 'Jobs' forum, but changed my mind and decided to stick it in here instead.

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30 Dec 2008, 3:11 pm

FWIW my 2 cents:
You're probably looking for the wrong cog while they are changing the whole machine.

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30 Dec 2008, 5:10 pm

ValMikeSmith wrote:

FWIW my 2 cents:
You're probably looking for the wrong cog while they are changing the whole machine.

What do you mean? That's a bit too cryptic for me.

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30 Dec 2008, 5:23 pm

Quantitative analysis is not my favorite chore, but every engineer must eventually sift through a set of numerical data to find the means, the extremes, the deviations, the variances, the trends, et cetera.

Just let me take stuff apart and put it back together again, and I'll be happy.

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30 Dec 2008, 5:35 pm

Fnord wrote:

Oh, I see.

I was talking about quantitative analysts in finance ... "financial engineers" if you like.

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30 Dec 2008, 11:58 pm

if you strech it a bit and include statistics, I was there. And my bro' is in finance, so maybe it runs in the family o_O

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31 Dec 2008, 12:16 am

skysaw wrote:

Fnord wrote:

Oh, I see.

I was talking about quantitative analysts in finance ... "financial engineers" if you like.

I considered using my powers of math for finance and stuff a ways back. Then I tried to read a book on finance.

It was the most potent sleep pill I'd found since Being and Nothingness.

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