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Globally, 16 suicides/100000 people/year. So the 30 million people should have 4800 suicides in a year, or 13 per day. But these two deaths are restricted to Ca
by jws 11y ago
Globally, 16 suicides/100000 people/year. So the 30 million people should have 4800 suicides in a year, or 13 per day. But these two deaths are restricted to Canada which has a lower suicide rate than the global average, and we don't know what portion of the 30 million are Canadian, so we don't have enough data to make a guess.
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- enedil 11y agoProbably a lot less since whole Canada is inhabited by only 35 million.
- twohlix_ 11y agoBut it was a Canadian based company so there may be quite a few Canadians in there. Also see: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ashley-madison-says-1-in-5-ottawans-subscribed-to-adulterer-website-1.3162638 http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ashley-madison-says-1-in-5-o...
- Someone 11y agohttp://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/08/19/ashley-madison-hack-canadians_n_8010516.html http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/08/19/ashley-madison-hack-... mentions an estimate of 273,000. That's about 1% of 30 million, or about 0.1/day, or 3 weeks for those 2 suicides. I bet any deviation from the average isn't statistically significant (in fact, for 2 suicides, ¿almost? no 'background' suicide level will be statistically significant) On the other hand, I do expect that Canadian police didn't base their claim on nothing. Chances are they found suicide notes, or something similar.
- Someone 11y ago”didn’t base their claim on nothing” Actually, they didn’t claim anything, and only talked about unconfirmed reports (https://twitter.com/TorontoPolice/status/635816932474814464 https://twitter.com/TorontoPolice/status/635816932474814464, http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ashley-madison-hack-2-unconfirmed-suicides-linked-to-breach-toronto-police-say-1.3201432 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ashley-madison-hack-2-...)