Measuring what you care about
From the Herald
According to co-founder Jackson Wood, many workplaces today use drug testing as a proxy for impairment testing. However, these are generally arbitrary or ineffective and not always reflective of potential employee impairment at the workplace.
Wood’s startup, Ora, is aiming to build a system that tests reliably for impairment. If it can be done, this would be valuable in NZ industries, and might well also attract interest from the US. With the increasing number of states legalising cannabis, it is increasingly a problem that there is no simple and reliable proxy for driving impairment.
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »