Philip K. Dick was a visionary
Closed Published by Tom December 4th, 2006 in Freedom, Government, TechnologyRichard 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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