…and I don’t know which possibility is the least worrying
Don’t be fooled by randomness. Randomness comes in clumps. For example if you flipped a thousand coins every day for a year and measured how each one predicted the stock market, heads for up, tails for down, at the end of the year you’ll likely have one coin that far out performs the average. But would you use that coin to determine your investment strategy the next year?
And yeah Boeing is now killing people outside of their planes.
Boeing is now killing people outside of their planes.
That’s a great line!
Could this be akin to the Birthday paradox?
Not really. That is just a fact that there’s only 365 days, and the more samples you make increases the odds it’s a sample that overlaps with another (there are fewer unique options).
What the OP is saying is that sometimes randomness can appear less random than other randomness. True randomness will occasionally give results that closely match something non-random. It’s why almost all music players don’t use true random for shuffle. True random you could have the same song play 15 times in a row. In fact, that is expected to happen eventually (assuming infinite time) just as all other sets of 15 songs are.
My dream is for Spotify (and other music playing apps) to let you customize your shuffle algorithm. Minimum number of songs between repeating an artist or album, that sort of thing.
That would be sick. 🤘
Or it’s a coincidence. N=2
Still statistically significant, even with a high margin of error our only evidence points towards it being a trend
There’s an xkcd about this
it could also be coincidence. humans are great at assuming patterns
I believe in coincidences. I don’t trust coincidences.
Are you a humble tailor by any chance?
The latest death was due to disease (flu and MSRA, leading to pneumonia and apparently a stroke), though, and his family confirmed as such. Many of these whistle-blowers are older experienced engineers who will be biased towards a higher death rate.
Still, fuck Boeing though. The first suicide remains suspect. Corporate scumbags.
The hitman just coughed on him. Devious.
They definitely killed the first. Just learned about the second and hearing it was MRSA? So who knows. Maybe they’re borrowing some bioweapon tech from their pals at McDonnell Douglas.
They killed the first guy through years of abuse, not by directly killing him.
The bullet also helped
If Boeing supplied the bullet, it would’ve shattered before it left the gun
Sample size could also be too low, no?
Possibly. We’ll probably see eventually, either through a myriad of deaths, or a lawsuit with a lot of witnesses.
