nonquant

English[edit]

From non- +‎ quant.

nonquant (plural nonquants)

One who is not a quant (a quantitative analyst).
- 2009 January 4, Joe Nocera, “Risk Mismanagement”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-19:
  "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.
- 2017 June 16, Wesley Gray, “Investment Blogs You Should be Reading”, in The Wall Street Journal‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: Dow Jones & Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 October 2023:
  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.