Case report
Open access
Aug 2026
The Measurement Revolution? Credible Measurement and Inference in the Age of AI
It is argued that credible inference with AI-generated variables requires appropriately designed validation: anchoring measurement to explicit criteria, rather than informal claims that a proxy is reasonable, and how validation samples support valid inference even when AI predictions are arbitrarily biased.
Melissa Dell, Ashesh Rambachan
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