My mom is a developmental economist. She exclusively uses Stata, inspite of a decade of efforts on my part to introduce her to R and R studio. My conclusion is

My mom is a developmental economist. She exclusively uses Stata, inspite of a decade of efforts on my part to introduce her to R and R studio. My conclusion is that she views the tools as equivalent, and merely incidental to her work, and doesn't want to go to the effort of learning a new tool, that gives her no meaningful benefit.