Brooke Houck, PhD
Brooke Houck is a researcher in educational measurement and assessment and the founder of CairnCareers. Brooke wrote the methodology behind the AI-exposure score, the sample roadmap, and the four comparison pages on this site, and is the person to contact when a source or a number on them looks wrong.
Why does every number on CairnCareers carry a source?
Because that is the standard in measurement research. In Brooke's field, you do not publish a number without showing where it came from, so every source behind the AI-exposure score is named and linked on the methodology page, and every number on the dashboard carries a footnote.
“I built CairnCareers because I kept getting annoyed. Every week there was a new headline about which jobs AI would wipe out, and almost none of them said how they knew. When I traced the claims back, most rested on a job title and a guess. In my field you do not get to publish a number without showing where it came from. Students are making one of the most expensive decisions of their lives on claims that would not survive peer review, and they deserve the standard I am held to.”
Background
- Founder of CairnCareers and of Phronesis Labs LLC, which makes it.
- Researcher in educational measurement and assessment, with more than a decade building fair, transparent, and defensible ways to judge professional competence.
- Directed psychometrics, research, and assessment strategy for national certification and licensure organizations, including the American Board of Radiology and the National Board of Examiners in Optometry.
- Led the responsible use of AI in high-stakes, regulated settings.
- Earlier research roles at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with work in the L.L. Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory.
Full work history and publications are on LinkedIn.
More about the company behind CairnCareers: Phronesis Labs.
What has Brooke Houck written here?
How do I report an error in one of these pages?
Use the contact page. Name the page and the claim, and link the source you think is right if you have one. Corrections are welcome: we would rather fix an error than defend it.