Re:Higher-paid, faster-growing tech jobs are concentrating i...
by JumpCrisscross on Friday July 28, 2017 @12:35AM
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The article's methodology is silly because it measures tech listings as a percentage of job listings. Choosing a scale-neutral metric ignores the network effects associated with population density. For example, a town with a hundred jobs of which 99 are tech would top out this metric.
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Re:Higher-paid, faster-growing tech jobs are concentrating i...
by heartbreak on Friday July 28, 2017 @09:35AM
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The sample is definitely biased because it is only Indeed data, but I disagree about the scaling. I think using percentage of overall jobs that are "tech" is fine. It's their attempt to neutralize metro areas that overall use Indeed less than others.
Since this is only looking at populations greater than 1 million, I think an area with an overwhelming percentage of tech jobs such as your hypo 99% would be very interesting to anyone hunting for a tech job.
Again, this is Indeed, so job seekers and employers are the target audience of this post.