I’d be embarrassed to call myself a scientist if I didn’t know how to at least script basic shit and effortlessly reproduce data analyses. The bar for entry into every single stage of academic science is too fucking low. 95% of this literature is irreproducible shit, in part because fuckwits don’t know how to code. Scientists don’t need to be software engineers, but yes, they need to be able to program. It wasn’t this way 20 years ago, but it most certainly is nowadays.

Except every scientist and analyst. Stats, data sci and ML is done in R and Python, be it astro, health data or genomics.

If someone has been taught stats in spreadsheet software, they have have been taught wrong, period.

Also, programming is a very strong term. we’re talking about stats in a scripting language, not software development in CPP.

Research projects almost exclusively have more than one person working on them.

They should be if they’re doing data analysis like this.