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Someone committed suicide by hanging themself with an ethernet cable, it wasn't an "artifact"
by karlp 7y ago
Someone committed suicide by hanging themself with an ethernet cable, it wasn't an "artifact"
- boohoojangles 7y ago"Rémy set himself on fire in 2011 in front of a France Télécom office near Bordeaux" GP doesn't seem to have read the article and is throwing some statistics gimmicks.
- praptak 7y agoI am not saying it was, just that doubling of the rate means little by itself. If the suicide rate is 17 per 22000, then natural variance alone will push about 14% of random 22k samples into "more than double the base rate" area. In other words, if you take this indicator alone, then you'll have a false positive about 14% of the time. Obviously, the key word is "alone". With more data about bullying as the cause of suicide you might get better estimations.
- liberte82 7y ago> natural variance alone will push about 14% of random 22k samples into "more than double the base rate" area. Is this true? Can you show the math on this? I'm not seeing it.
- praptak 7y agoNevermind, I made a mistake in my original calculations - used variance instead of standard deviation. Actually (from approximating the binomial distribution with n=22k and p=17/22000 with normal one) getting the rate over 30 per 22k has p<0.001.