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The claims the certification industry makes — checked
The certification and bootcamp industry runs on numbers that are rarely audited — pass rates that the vendors we reviewed do not publish, placement rates with fine print, salary premiums with no counterfactual. These articles check those claims against what is actually measurable, and say plainly when a number has no source behind it.
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