28-Year Old Former JPMorgan Banker Jumps To His Death, Latest In Series Of Recent Suicides

Zero Hedge ^ | 3/18/14 | Tyler Durden

[from occupied ga]

You’d have to compare the recent spate of suicides to the general historical rate of suicide among young, healthy, successful investment bankers to get a better picture.

Are you familiar with the gaussian distribution? or better still the concept of a distribution function?

[Renfield]

Having had several graduate-level courses in statistics, yes, I am.

[Renfield]

I don’t think the number of events we’re discussing here is sufficient for a Gaussian function to apply.

Connect dots.

[Chickensoup]

5.5 million people are employed in the banking and insurance industries. Figure half are wankers bankers. that’s 2.75 million bankers out of 320 million people in the usa or .8594%. If we apply this to the number of suicides we would expect 335 bankers to suicide every year.

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Lousy stats.

These are investment bankers, a small group within the world of banking. There does not seem to be more than 100,000 world-wide.

[from occupied ga]

yes, I am.

Good, but apparently you haven't thought through the implications, namely that there is a finite probability that things will clump together. Since you're familiar with statistics then you'll know that the governing distribution here is poisson and if you split the events into time related blocks, then you'll know that there is a real probability that some time blocks will have more events than others.

[from occupied ga]

a small group within the world of banking

Here. You'll need this to line your room and make your hat.

[Chickensoup]

Here. You’ll need this to line your room and make your hat.

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Why? You don’t comprehend stats?

[from occupied ga]

Why? You don’t comprehend stats?

I do. You obviously don't.