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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 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts
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...and I don't know which possibility is the least worrying

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Or it's a coincidence. N=2

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Still statistically significant, even with a high margin of error our only evidence points towards it being a trend

[–] Wogi 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There's an xkcd about this

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It statistically significant because middle-aged people who were about to give evidence at a trial dying is not a common occurrence. Happening once is suspicious happening twice is extremely suspicious.

It is not like Boeing is staffed by geriatrics on the edge of life as it is

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Or, as The Onion reports, Boeing intentionally hires employees with suicidal tendencies.