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      6 months ago

      You don’t compare the stats to the population in its entirety

      You do for disease and suicide as it can happen to literally anyone.

      If working for a specific company or being a whistleblower affects those statistics, the company should be held responsible anyway.

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          6 months ago

          From what is currently known about the two whistleblowers neither were particularly at higher risk of suicide or MRSA. The person who died of MRSA was healthy and active with no history of hospitalization whatsoever. Close friends of the first whistleblower claim that suicide was very unlike him, and his previous statement of “if anything happens, it wasn’t suicide” strengthens that.

          There are other commenters here speculating that being a whistleblower makes you at higher risk of suicide, but there are no official statistics on that, so it is at most speculation, therefore I need to use general statistics.

          All probabilistic models and datasets eventually get replaced with more accurate ones, but that doesn’t discredit them until then.