People who attempt data science without validating the statistics should eventually end up with a pretty bad track record and leave the "data scientist" job ma

People who attempt data science without validating the statistics should eventually end up with a pretty bad track record and leave the "data scientist" job market. My perception of what data scientist currently means is a statistician who knows how to program machine learning algorithms and manage large data sets. Based on what you are saying, there are a lot of impostors out there, which is most likely true. However, every time I see a job posting for a data scientist, it almost always requires some formal math or statistics background.