Automatable

A task performed by Social Science Research Assistants

Perform descriptive and multivariate statistical analyses of data, using computer software.

Green LightWorkers want it · AI can do it

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 4/5. That puts it in the Automation Green Light zone.

Worker desire to automate4.0/5

How much the people who do this task want AI to take it over (avg of 5 workers).

AI capability today4.0/5

How capable experts rate current AI at this task (avg of 3 experts).

How much human involvement should stay?

The Human Agency Scale (H1–H5) captures how much human direction workers think this task should keep.

H3Equal human–AI partnership

Why workers want this automated

  • Frees up time for higher-value work80%
  • It's repetitive80%
  • Reduces human error60%
  • Helps handle larger scale60%
  • It's stressful20%
  • It's difficult20%

How to automate this

Good news: this is a strong candidate to automate now.

Finding & gathering information

Make the information come to you on a schedule.

  1. 1Set up saved searches and alerts instead of checking manually (Google Alerts, feeds).
  2. 2Pull updates into one place with RSS or a no-code scraper.
  3. 3Use an AI search tool for the first pass, then verify the sources.

Tools that can help

Google Alerts / RSSBrowse AIPerplexity

Know a better way, or spot an error?

Share how you automate this in real life, or correct the data. Reviewed before publishing.

This is 1 of 5 tasks studied for Social Science Research Assistants, where workers want 80% of tasks automated.

Other Green Light tasks