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scholar_requesting t1_itwgjat wrote

R being on the bottom with a large interquartile range is dark but not surprising. Among the more well-to-do data scientists, statisticians, business analysts, and professors, there's a whole lot of low-income graduate students, research assistants, research associates, and postdoctoral scholars trying to keep their heads above water. Edit: ...and who might not be able to access, afford, or be willing to pirate SPSS/SAS/Stata/Prism/MATLAB.

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shindleria t1_itxppy8 wrote

I always try to imagine a world where this chart is flipped, especially in the context of what’s going on right now in 2022.

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AlbanianAquaDuck t1_ityeeld wrote

So true. If our best scientists and engineers were paid the big bucks by government to research climate change and renewable energy solutions instead of getting scooped up by big tech and corporations, we would probably be on our way to meet our net zero emissions targets, but he we are.

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minusTHEoso25 t1_ity4ln4 wrote

That’s my guess. Most of our students, graduate students, and post docs are using R, and they are probably making zilch.

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a_cat_question t1_ityepkf wrote

Also you would not develop full software suites in R but rather do data evaluation. Anybody earning the big bucks will consider themselves a statistician or scientist but not an R genius.

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