Isn't the reason those fields mostly see usage of basic stats that they were never taught anything more sophiscated. For example in exercise physiology, which studies a lot of phenomena over time, the results get reduced to minimum/maximum/average because those points match the required input of their basic ANOVA's. Instead they could be comparing time series and find more subtle difference in when a rise starts to occur or at which rate. Numbers that often get obscured by the massive data reductions. Sure you can get by without more advanced data analysis and statistics, but its not exactly something to strive for.