Sorry for the long-winded question title. During interviews for a junior data scientist position I have noticed that almost every interviewer I have talked to (not recruiters or "talent managers", but real life data scientists including the head of data science quite often) know very little statistics. I am very interested to hear if anyone has real-life experience in a data science setting, where a lack of statistical knowledge has caused serious problems?
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