Dr. Bob

And the answer is"What is the Poisson Distribution" Alex.

There is literally a distribution that describes the occurences of low probability events in large populations. It was developed to study deaths by horse kick in the Prussian army. So confidence intervals never come into it. You’re applying Stats for Communications Majors reasoning to an adult problem.

Holy shit that’s low. I was asking for £35k in 2004 for a technical role. They wanted to pay 17.

I was a civil servant. The hiring bands were pretty wide well defined there, at least for technical specialists like yours truly. The 50-60% of max range is considered developmental and would normally be given to an internal candidate who was being groomed as part of a succession plan. 60-80% is the sweet spot, and they will go to 90% for an exceptional candidate. Only once in my career did I negotiate 100% of max - and it was because I was taking a pay cut in the new role. I was changing jurisdictions because I was ( and still am) in love.

100% this. This is pretty classy. We are typically told to not even contact external candidates. HR will send them the impersonal notice.

I feel like the numbers matter here. I recently moved jobs and the posted salary was the full range for the role. The hiring range is a narrower slice of that range. The range below the hiring target is internal development space. The space above is …well they don’t want to use it. They want a couple years of salary increase to keep you from immediately starting your next job search I think. lol.

Are you telling me that 35,000 vehicles is not a sufficient sample size to assess safety? Are you for real?

You can draw conclusions because there’s only 35,000 on the road. That is a terrible rate.