Philip K. Dick was a visionary

Richard Berk, a Uni­ver­sity of Penn­syl­va­nia crim­i­nol­o­gist, has devel­oped a soft­ware tool that pre­dicts who will com­mit homi­cide. It looks at about 40 vari­ables to make the determination.

An arti­cle describ­ing the tech­niques can be found here. [PDF] An impor­tant thing to note is that the sam­ple pop­u­la­tion was 10,000 peo­ple already in jail. This may not work as a gen­eral pre­dic­tor of behav­ior for a true ran­dom sampling.

That chill you’re feel­ing isn’t paranoia.

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