Ten Minute Test Could Spot Killers Before They Kill
from the mind-patrol... dept
Here's one more step towards the thought police. Some researchers have developed a ten minute test that they think can spot psychopaths who have a tendency to become serial killers. The article describes how the test works: by looking at response times to images that may convey conflicting emotions about violence. However, I wonder what happens when someone who has committed no crime takes this test and is determined to be a psychopath. What do you do at that point? Do you lock up someone who has done nothing wrong?
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Sundiver
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quick fix
If this thing is shown to be even mildly accurate, you just know the mob mentality/lowest common denominator will just love it...forget about committing a crime, this will be used as proof that you will commit one...and will be judged the same thing.
We'll start having blacklists again...
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Univeral Constant
Kinda' reminds me of when I used to work the retail counter at a mall camera shop. I had to take a "screening test" to get the job... only thing was you had to be a total kleptomanic moron to get flagged by the test. Dishonest co-workers who *did* steal from the company were far more intelligent and sneaker than that. Of course those of us who realized that the 50% store authroized discount program for employees was a far easier/less risky way to make money (buy at half price and sell for 75% of retail)... and that's why the employee discount program was there (after all, who can live off of minimum wage plus 10% comission).
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