Did you take any notes that could serve as corroboration of your conclusion? "Name / reason" sort of thing? I'm not going to read 20 articles, because I don't really care. I figure some will get out because the gravy train was going to get lean, time for getting out is good, and so on (meaning directly assignable to Trump policies), and expect an uptick of 10-20%, at the most, for that reason. The raw numbers seem to track a 5 or 10 year cycle - high to low number.
I couldn't prove my sense of what's going on, it's mostly based on intuition. But it would take more than a conclusory statement for me to accept that 80% of the names on the list left "for nefarious reasons" even if I give wide latitude on what constitutes nefarious reasons.
Well, the import of the list is going to require some statistics. Right now I’m slammed to do all myself. Doesn’t require full up analysis of 35,000 cases. A representative sampling plan could require several hundred taken from a random sample. Will revisit in a week or so.
To get at its nature will require dividing labor, asking members to read through certain line item sections and deem scandalous or not, etc. Off the top, if a random sample of 300 would suffice, asking each willing member to read say 10 line items entails a project team of 30 members. For increased validity, a separate team could read the same sample with the two teams crosschecked to each other.