It's definitely an issue across many fields and I don't have any other explanation than pride and "confidence" issues. A similar thing is AI and stats which hav

It's definitely an issue across many fields and I don't have any other explanation than pride and "confidence" issues. A similar thing is AI and stats which have only really converged in the 1990s and are still quite separate communities, or reinforcement learning and control theory which investigate overlapping issues from different angles but haven't communicated for a long time. Well then what holds someone back from learning state-of-the-art stats and making a name for themselves in econometrics?