actuaries

For the most part, actuaries make terrible insurances salespeople, mechanics fail in car sales, and so on.

Be interesting to see what the epidemiologists and actuaries come up with to assess the cost-benefit.

Do you think insurance companies would give discounts unless the benefits were per their actuaries real?

You appear to be thinking of the CPA requirement which is for accountants, not actuaries.

Most actuaries will know some programming and nowadays you cannot get hired unless you can use VBA at a minimum or C++.

Well, without actuaries, insurance would not be priced correctly, and would be prohibitively expensive or too cheap and insurance companies would go out of business.

Well, almost every field you mentioned - actuaries were quite successful.

What, exactly, do you think actuaries do during their 9-5?

Not to say there aren't entrepreneurial professionals, or entrepreneurial actuaries.

Single payer still acts as an insurer and needs actuaries (even if they're not called that) to figure out which procedures make sense with their limited resources.

Did their actuaries just do a horrible job?

Perhaps, but you don't need an army of sophisticated actuaries to figure this year's number for Croydon is not too different from the last 20 years of data.

I imagine actuaries are about the most technical "nontechnical" users there are so a DSL seems a particularly good fit.

For instance, actuaries, statisticians, and "neural network guys" (a combination of computer scientists, applied mathematicians & biologists before it really concretized into a discipline) all independently invented logistic regressions (and within the discipline, they usually got invented in a couple of different contexts before they were unified within the same framework).

Actuaries are applied mathematicians, and typically of above average intelligence compared to the general populace.

Actuaries are exceptionally well trained professionals who use incredibly sophisticated automation.

First thoughts would be to compare to Quants, or Actuaries.