Statistician Arthur Turrell on using AI to tackle declining survey response rates and data quality
Statistician Arthur Turrell discusses the challenges facing modern statistics, including declining survey response rates and the difficulty of measuring modern economic output. He argues that statistics are critical infrastructure for the UK, used for decisions from school funding to taxes, and explores how thoughtful use of AI can help separate good data from bad to address these challenges.
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Statistics are critical infrastructure for the UK, just like our roads or water pipes: they are used to make decisions about everything from school funding to taxes.
It's harder to count the things that we make today than it was to count the things we used to make.
Surveys, once the life-blood of our nation's statistics, are facing steep declines in response rates.
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