(June 6, 2017 at 10:32 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: Psychological profiling is a useful tool, but no one can read minds. It's probabilistic, and shouldn't be considered evidence in itself, IMHO. Where it comes in handy is when you've got a crime and you're trying to narrow down the list of potential perpetrators, but it should be used to find evidence for a conviction. I don't think it should even be brought up in court except as part of an explanation of how the police came to look into that particular suspect.
Do you think racial profiling could be a probabilistic useful tool?
This really isn't related to the rant but thought it would be interesting to ask.
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