Statistical analysis should be made contestable—Ayres argues businesses adopting number-crunching should hire 'statistical auditors' and allow people to re-analyze the same questions with alternative assumptions, mirroring the academic clash-of-studies model.

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Ian Ayres

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you shouldn't just trust any super cruncher that we should try to move more and more toward making the statistical analysis contestable

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Ian Ayres on Super Crunchers and the Power of Data 10/22/2007EconTalk
Created: 6/17/2026, 10:31:42 AM

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