[DataWorker]

This is the truth. People can't do simple statistics, even with advanced degrees. In many cases advanced degrees make things worse. The ability to reason about data and have strong fundamentals in math statistics is what's needed.

Someone else mentioned Gelman's blog. That's a great place to find evidence that phd's do not lead to an increased ability to ferret out "truth" or insight from data. In many cases they just hide the mistakes so that others without that background don't know they're being misled.