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The literal answer to your question is, "no, generally not". That a greater emphasis on statistics should be included in science is certainly the case, but then there is a school of thought that know a little bit of frequentist statistics is better than knowing none at all. But regardless, I am fairly confident that most scientists (or engineers) do not actually learn this as juniors (or seniors) (or Ph.D's)



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