A task performed by Biostatisticians
Calculate sample size requirements for clinical studies.
Likely yes, and the people who do it want it gone. Workers rate their desire to automate this 4/5, and experts rate current AI capability at 3.5/5. That puts it in the Automation Green Light zone.
Do you want this task automated?
How much the people who do this task want AI to take it over (avg of 4 workers).
How capable experts rate current AI at this task (avg of 2 experts).
How much human involvement should stay?
The Human Agency Scale (H1–H5) captures how much human direction workers think this task should keep.
Why workers want this automated
- It's repetitive75%
- Helps handle larger scale75%
- Frees up time for higher-value work50%
- It's stressful50%
- Reduces human error50%
- It's difficult50%
How to automate this
Good news: this is a strong candidate to automate now.
Calculations & estimates
Turn the math into a reusable calculator.
- 1Turn the math you use to calculate sample size requirements for clinical studies into a spreadsheet model, so estimates update from the inputs.
- 2Use the calculators already built into your industry software.
- 3Check with formulas instead of recomputing by hand.
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This is 1 of 5 tasks studied for Biostatisticians, where workers want 40% of tasks automated.
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