A couple months ago, I pitched a story idea (or rather, a series of related questions) to National Public Radio’s (NPR) “The Indicator” podcast. I wanted to know…
- How the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics calculated their estimations for projected jobs growth over such long time horizons.
- How accurate these estimations have proven to be retroactively.
I was curious to learn how confident we could be in the BLS’s estimates for ~30% job growth in cybersecurity despite a growing amount of evidence to the contrary.
A few weeks after that, NPR’s Darian Woods reached out to me and we got to speaking more on the topic. That conversation - and the subsequent research involved - ended up being the subject of one of “The Indicator’s” recent episodes, now available to listen: