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by speedybird 1708 days ago
How many people are involved in this AppleToo thing? It's hard for me to get a handle on just how significant any of this is in the scope of the whole corporation. I clicked through a few links in the article and see various numbers, 15 people, 200 people, 500 'instances'.
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angry_octet 1708 days ago
Only those with the most secure job prospects would take the risk to report, so you have to estimate the denominator -- what proportion of the boldest and most privileged employees report, and what can we infer about the wider company from this?
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speedybird 1708 days ago
The denominator is easy, wikipedia tells me that is 147,000 (2020.) I'm wonder what the numerator is.
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angry_octet 1708 days ago
No that's wrong, because most of those people don't have the security to risk making a report.
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speedybird 1708 days ago
How many is the numerator? That's all I'm asking; do you even know? There is a pretty big difference between 15 and 200. Which of those is more accurate? Is it even either of those?

What good is 'estimating' (read: bullshiting) another denominator if I don't even know what the numerator is?

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