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Money Talks: The Disappearing Databases

2025/2/18
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Lizzie O'Leary: 自1月31日起，大量的政府数据和网站已经下线，这对研究人员、医生、经济学家以及普通民众都造成了影响。这些数据对于他们的工作，甚至是拯救生命都至关重要。许多健康、环境和对外援助数据被撤下，以遵守政府关于性别、多样性和对外援助的命令。私人研究人员和学者正在备份这些数据，以便了解未来如何衡量事物。美国政府的13个统计机构收集经济数据，这对经济的稳健和可信赖至关重要。各机构之间相互依赖，美联储也依赖于来自全国各地的数据。 Felix Hammond: 我们担心依赖的数据消失，无法再访问。即使我们有数据存档，也担心数据集不会继续更新。即使数据继续发布，我们也可能无法完全信任其可靠性。削减劳工统计局和人口普查局的预算会直接影响这些调查的可靠性。目前尚不清楚这是否是对可靠统计数据的全面攻击。可靠的统计数据是最重要的基础设施。如果政府数据消失，我们应该依赖什么？

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Government data and websites are disappearing. Researchers, economists, and public health officials rely on this data, and its removal is a significant issue. The removal of data is not always done in a targeted way, sometimes even removing data related to statistical bias.
  • Over 450 government domains and more than 8,000 web pages went offline.
  • Data sets crucial for research, policymaking, and public health are affected.
  • Efforts to back up data are underway, but the impact on future data collection is unknown.

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In this Money Talks: Lizzie O’Leary), host of What Next: TBD)*, *joins Felix Salmon) to discuss her article on why government databases are crucial to our economy), and why it’s so worrisome that this kind of public data is being removed by the Trump administration.

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