[lbo-talk] the virginina university massacre

[Miles Jackson]

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> [WS:] I think it is only a problem when you limit yourself to
> paper-and-pencil testing.  If, otoh, you start observing the suspect
> (identified based on those test) and see in what kind of behavior he engages
> in everyday life - is he being set off by trivial events, is he aggressive,
> does he torture animals, is he trying to acquire weapons ?  then the
> predictive power of your profiling will increase rather dramatically.  .
>
> Wojtek
>
> _
No, that doesn't help.  The vast majority of people who torture animals 
do not go on killing sprees.  Same methodological problem.

Miles