I think the problem is that most of the people working in this field does not seem to have basic knowledge about statistics or how to evaluate statistics. They

I think the problem is that most of the people working in this field does not seem to have basic knowledge about statistics or how to evaluate statistics. They somehow think they can cheat it. And they over evaluate their own results. The death of Google Translate was caused by GT started to learn from itself. Same thing will be happening to self-driving cars and so on. Five years ago, some garbage predictors said developers would become obsolete. I tell you, the amount of work that needs to be done by real people at real companies in the software biz has never been higher.