The recent horrific killing of a 10 year old in santa fe makes me think that anything that can help with recidivism would be a Good Thing.
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/albuquerque-girl-s-killing-is-new-mexico-s-latest-horrific/article_e6c5c95a-6a1b-51e4-a42a-4ce241923d1b.html If the predictive techniques can at least identify those who should be watched more closely, I reluctantly agree it would be useful to try to do so. -- Owen On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Tom Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > You saw this, right? > > Looks like someone has evaluated independently ... > > https://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-analyzed-the-compa > s-recidivism-algorithm > > > ============================================ > Tom Johnson > Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA > 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) > Society of Professional Journalists <http://www.spj.org> - Region 9 > <http://www.spj.org/region9.asp> Director > *Check out It's The People's Data > <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Its-The-Peoples-Data/1599854626919671>* > http://www.jtjohnson.com [email protected] > ============================================ > > On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 5:30 AM, Steven A Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Interesting development! Slippery slope at the very least. >> >> Seems like this is square between "profiling" and that PK Dick story >> "Minority Report" >> >> On 8/26/16 5:24 PM, Pamela McCorduck wrote: >> >> So agree. We are *so* far from certain on this one. >> >> >> On Aug 26, 2016, at 5:11 PM, Tom Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I think we should proceed with great caution on this one. >> >> http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2016/07/13/court-judges-can-conside >> r-predictive-algorithms-in-sentencing/ >> >> TJ >> >> <http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2016/07/13/court-judges-can-consider-predictive-algorithms-in-sentencing/> >> >> ============================================ >> Tom Johnson >> Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA >> 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) >> Society of Professional Journalists <http://www.spj.org/> - Region 9 >> <http://www.spj.org/region9.asp> Director >> *Check out It's The People's Data >> <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Its-The-Peoples-Data/1599854626919671>* >> http://www.jtjohnson.com [email protected] >> ============================================ >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> >> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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