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With two Boeing whistleblowers dead in one month, either Boeing is actively killing them, or there are enough whistleblowers that this rate of death is not statistically significant (feddit.nl)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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...and I don't know which possibility is the least worrying

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Sample size could also be too low, no?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Possibly. We'll probably see eventually, either through a myriad of deaths, or a lawsuit with a lot of witnesses.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

The second was MRSA/pneumonia. Take off the tinfoil hat.....for now anyways.

Fuck Boeing, but at least wait until another "suicide".

Also any 2 points make a straight line with an r^2 of 1.000000. You can't reliably determine anything with that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

n=2 is a terrible sample size

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

As I said above, any 2 points make a perfect line with an r^2 of 1.0000.

You need AT LEAST 3 points haha. Hopefully no one in stats sees this comment.