> Almost all CS people learn a good bit of statistics as part of their education
> The crux behind the idea of being better than average at two things makes you individually extraordinary is that the two skills are not correlated.
I don't know if "almost all CS people" come from better schools than mine, but I've never had a proper statistics course, and my degree has a "data science" stamp on it. Having good statistics skills, and not just good knowledge of some machine learning frameworks, is probably rarer than you think.
I've given up trying to understand. The school focuses heavily on software development, and they don't seem willing to change the curriculum too drastically to make room for a good data science track. But they want to have one anyway...
> The crux behind the idea of being better than average at two things makes you individually extraordinary is that the two skills are not correlated.
I don't know if "almost all CS people" come from better schools than mine, but I've never had a proper statistics course, and my degree has a "data science" stamp on it. Having good statistics skills, and not just good knowledge of some machine learning frameworks, is probably rarer than you think.