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Forecast fb91e22a · published 2026-08-19
Around 1 job postings for program manager roles are expected the week of Jul 27–Aug 2, 2026 (likely range: 0–3, 80% coverage) — down from 4 the week of Jun 29–Jul 5, 2026.
Confirmed
What was claimed
The forecast
- Target period
- Jul 27–Aug 2, 2026
- Predicted mentions
- 1 job postings
- Direction
- ↓ Falling
- Method
- Linear trend fit with confidence interval
- Review by
- 2026-08-02
- Expires
- 2026-08-09
Confidence at publication
Early signal
What happened
Outcome
- Actual mentions
- 2 job postings
- Off by
- 1 postings
- Accuracy
- 75%
- Direction
- ✓ Called correctly
- Predicted range
- ✓ Actual fell inside it
Interval 0.0-3.2 covered the observed 2.0 (down) in 2026-W31; point estimate was 1.5 (down).
Observed history
program manager — the series behind the fit
May 25–31, 2026: 0 mentionsJun 1–7, 2026: 0 mentionsJun 8–14, 2026: 0 mentionsJun 15–21, 2026: 0 mentionsJun 22–28, 2026: 0 mentionsJun 29–Jul 5, 2026: 4 mentions
How we know
Evidence
4
Confidence
Early signal
Source diversity
1 source
100% from one source — treat as narrow
Last updated
2026-08-19
Reality validation
- Predicted
- 1.49
- Actual
- 2
- Accuracy
- 75%
- Direction
- called correctly
How this forecast was made
- Approach
- Linear trend fitted to recent weekly counts, with a range to account for uncertainty
- How far ahead
- 4 weeks
- Checked against reality by
- 2026-08-02
- Can it be edited?
- No — forecasts are locked at publication and scored as-is
Track record for program manager
20 forecasts published, 14 scored, mean accuracy 38%.
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