<p>As I understand, the general idea of SE team is just make everything a <em>topic</em>.stackexchange.com to build a StackExchange brand. Statistical Analysis outside and CrossValidated inside is a kind of <em>status quo</em> -- the same is with cooking, which is internally SeasonedAdvice, and Apple being AskDifferent.<br>
I like CrossValidated as a name and I'm of course glad of this compromise, but honestly I don't know what are its terms, thus I don't know what are the odds of moving it in any direction.</p>

<p>Anyway I'll repeat the most utilitarian reason why CV is better than Stats -- this is not a site about Statistical Analysis, but about statistical analysis, designing experiments, collecting data, data mining, machine learning, visualizing data, probability theory, mathematical statistics and statistical and data-driven computing. The only short statement to cover it is "data science", but on the other hand this collides with SE data explorer.<br>
BTW the "Q&amp;A for statisticians, data analysts, data miners and data visualization experts" line reflects the wide scope already, and it looks somewhat strange written below "Statistical Analysis"...</p>
