nonquant

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noun

One who is not a quant (a quantitative analyst).

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounnonquant (plural nonquants)

plural nonquants

  1. One who is not a quant (a quantitative analyst).

    The team does an excellent job sharing their complex ideas and concepts in a way that is easy to understand for quants and nonquants alike.

    2017 June 16, Wesley Gray, “Investment Blogs You Should be Reading”, in The Wall Street Journal, New York, N.Y.: Dow Jones & Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2023
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    "There was a lot of suspicion internally," recalls [Till] Guldimann, because traders and executives — nonquants — didn't believe that such a thing could be quantified mathematically.

    2009 January 4, Joe Nocera, “Risk Mismanagement”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2023

Origin

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nonquant,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonquant.

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