The mismatch between current statistical practice and doctoral training in ecology

I don't really like the framing of "Traditional" vs "Contemporary" but the call for more statistical training in ecology is useful when convincing students that #stats is pretty handy 😜 https://t.co/XFYHmoNg2K

@EcoEvoLab Check out Touchon and McCoy (2016) who surveyed 154 US doctoral programs and found that only 1/4 required statistics courses, most of which did not cover "contemporary" methods. Despite the fact that R has taken over in the ecological literature

RT @frod_san: There's a large gap between #statistics education at universities and current practice in #ecology. We need to move on from…

RT @frod_san: There's a large gap between #statistics education at universities and current practice in #ecology. We need to move on from…