Sample

The online survey posted to Time Magazine’s website generated 84,394 responses and we isolated the 40,646 responses to the survey that were provided by those who were 18 years or older and whose internet protocol addresses were from the United States. We eliminated non-U.S. responses due to the questionable comparisons of O*NET data generated in the U.S. to jobs outside of the U.S.³⁹. We further isolated 4,662 responses from individuals employed or interested in the 47 occupations that had been categorized as CS using the procedure explained above. Following this, we then randomly selected 500 responses from each of the two groups: (1) those living in the U.S. who self-identified as being employed in CS (4,059 responses) and (2) those living in the U.S. who self-identified as being unemployed and aspiring to CS (603 responses). Responses were randomly selected using the “sample()” function in R (https://www.R-project.org/).