How about a tool to identify politicians most likely to steal money from the public in the form of dogooder boondoggles?
Efforts like this, ESPECIALLY if successful in predicting behavior, rarely stop at just the original stated purpose.
Once proven, the method will undeniably be branched out to other things, e.g., say “tolerance/acceptance quotient,” “openness to morally contradicting orders,” “political or religious obedience”.....it could go on for a whole host of questionable motives.
If the military is going to pursue this, I’d first suggest that we prove the concept by vetting each and every US Government elected (or proposed/nominated) official with a comportment test on the US Constitution.
>>Yeah, what could go wrong?
All part of making veteran status into a virtual “prior conviction”. Of course, this will only apply to white male heterosexual veterans, since you know that they’ll normalize the data to say that brown, black, female, or gay veterans won’t be flagged for pre-crime.
Wasn't he the counselor, himself? How did that work out?
Maybe use this in Chicago...On the Sins....oops...Sons... of Obama...
In other words, the study shows that Sons of Obama are prone to violent crime.
This is clearly going to go nowhere with Obama as CIC.
They will be at least as accurate as the climate change algorithms.
How about making entry requirements harder for those wishing to get in the army, because lately the younger guys I have met in the last two years for the most part have been girlie, useless, lazy, fat, and a joke
If it will work for the military,
Certainly it should be applied to
welfare recipients!!!
So they call test results of being constitutionalists and rejecting authority a new tool....
I hope the first study is used effectively...
The study, part of a massive research effort funded by the Army, builds on a paper published last year that used the same method to create a tool for identifying soldiers at greatest risk of suicide.
... and if the ‘identified’ soldiers refuse to attend ‘counseling’? What then?
Ah yes. The “US soldiers are high-strung psychopaths who are about to snap and kill people at any moment” meme. Can we apply these tools to Black Lives Matters protestors? What about Occupy Wall Street types?
Wow, I think they just invented “profiling”. Ain’t that swell? What a concept!
A tool like this would be useful in government to find the truth.
No, that’s profilng!!!! We don’t profile, that’s rayciss! Oh I forgot, that only applies to black crime statistics!
Will be nice sometime when the libs are thrown out and our military can return to being a fighting force instead of a social experiment.
Did they include being homosexual? Because that is a real marker of violent tendencies.
"other interventions" - such as say, taking away their firearms? Maybe "recommending" medications that of course you're free to take or not take. But if you don't go on the meds, well, we have to take action to protect you, your family, others in the community...
You know that is already in-plan for a future expansion of whatever this starts out as. You know they'll gin up some statistics to show how effective this is, and expand it to the civilian population.
It would be easy to identify likely violent people. Find out which ones have a bad or non-connection with their father.