It depends on what research they're doing. It's also quite easy to be led astray and produce poor work by trying to throw the newest, shiniest thing at somethin

It depends on what research they're doing. It's also quite easy to be led astray and produce poor work by trying to throw the newest, shiniest thing at something when a much more basic technique will do. For example, for much of the work I do, you could get away with never using anything more sophisticated than ANOVA.