Re:Theranos former president found guilty on all fraud counts
by lordnacho on Thursday July 07, 2022 @03:39PM
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But has she committed an average crime? Seems she did it in an industrial scale, whereas most offenders probably weren't.
Re:Theranos former president found guilty on all fraud counts
by gen220 on Thursday July 07, 2022 @03:42PM
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I'm definitely not suggesting her crime was average, rather I was curious to understand how her sentence fits into the statistical distribution of sexual abuse sentences. Because I had no idea whether 20 is crazy high, bang average, crazy low.
Unfortunately, without having the standard deviation of the distribution, it's difficult to draw strong conclusions from these data points. All we can really say is that she received a 25.6%-higher-than-average sentence.
25.6% above the mean could be an "industrial scale" number of standard deviations above the mean, we have no idea.
Knowing HN, I hope it's only a matter of time before someone computes it for us!
Her sentencing is 25.6% longer than the U.S. mean for sexual abuse in 2018. I'm not familiar with the standard deviation for this stat (it could be a 3 sigma event for all I know).
I still don't have an opinion, but it's a good stat to know.
[1] https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/research-and-pu...