Globally, 16 suicides/100000 people/year. So the 30 million people should have 4800 suicides in a year, or 13 per day. But these two deaths are restricted to Canada which has a lower suicide rate than the global average, and we don't know what portion of the 30 million are Canadian, so we don't have enough data to make a guess.
That's about 1% of 30 million, or about 0.1/day, or 3 weeks for those 2 suicides. I bet any deviation from the average isn't statistically significant (in fact, for 2 suicides, ¿almost? no 'background' suicide level will be statistically significant)
On the other hand, I do expect that Canadian police didn't base their claim on nothing. Chances are they found suicide notes, or something similar.
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Globally, 16 suicides/100000 people/year. So the 30 million people should have 4800 suicides in a year, or 13 per day. But these two deaths are restricted to Canada which has a lower suicide rate than the global average, and we don't know what portion of the 30 million are Canadian, so we don't have enough data to make a guess.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/08/19/ashley-madison-hack-... mentions an estimate of 273,000.
That's about 1% of 30 million, or about 0.1/day, or 3 weeks for those 2 suicides. I bet any deviation from the average isn't statistically significant (in fact, for 2 suicides, ¿almost? no 'background' suicide level will be statistically significant)
On the other hand, I do expect that Canadian police didn't base their claim on nothing. Chances are they found suicide notes, or something similar.
”didn’t base their claim on nothing”
Actually, they didn’t claim anything, and only talked about unconfirmed reports (https://twitter.com/TorontoPolice/status/635816932474814464, http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ashley-madison-hack-2-...)
Probably a lot less since whole Canada is inhabited by only 35 million.
But it was a Canadian based company so there may be quite a few Canadians in there. Also see: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ashley-madison-says-1-in-5-o...