Comparisons of facts can be insightful [President's Perspectives]

I have recently looked back to previous issues of our Magazine, and I was reminded of four years ago when Alessandro Ferrero, who was President of the Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS) in 2008, made a very interesting analysis of our membership considering many factors (The IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine, vol.11, no. 2, 2008, Apr. 2008).