{"id":62232,"date":"2015-10-08T09:53:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T13:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62232"},"modified":"2015-10-08T09:53:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T13:53:14","slug":"the-dod-behavioral-research-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62232","title":{"rendered":"The DoD behavioral research lab"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chief Tango sends us a link from Military.com<\/a> in which they report that the social justice warriors are hard at work turning the troops into lab rats for their latest experiment; predicting crime. They want to use soldiers in order to crunch numbers and determine which will commit violent crimes;<\/p>\n

The researchers drew on 38 databases containing information on 446 variables for each solider who served between 2004 and 2009. During that period, 5,771 soldiers committed murder, manslaughter, kidnapping, robbery or other violent felonies. (Domestic violence and sex crimes were not included in the study because research suggests that they follow risk patterns that are distinct from other types of offenses.)<\/p>\n

Using a technique known as machine learning, researchers looked for patterns among the violent offenders and used what they found to create a risk model.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

The highest-risk group — just 5 percent of the total population of male soldiers — accounted for 36 percent of the crimes perpetrated by men, the researchers found. Each year, on average, 15 of every 1,000 of those men committed a violent offense. That was more than seven times the overall rate for male soldiers.<\/p>\n

The highest-risk female soldiers were responsible for 33 percent of crimes perpetrated by women, who overall were about half as likely as men to commit violent offenses.<\/p>\n

The algorithm developed to assess their risk differed slightly from the one for men.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, it’s funny that someone would say women are different than men in this regard, but there you are. The researchers assure us that the resultant identified soldiers using their algorithm won’t be pre-arrested, but rather counseled to avoid the crimes they might commit. If you look at the things that trigger warnings, you’ll notice that many of those things are reasons that the Army kick people to the street. And you know what else? In the civilian world, they call some of it “racial profiling”;<\/p>\n

Those most at risk were young, poor, ethnic minorities with low ranks, disciplinary trouble, a suicide attempt and a recent demotion, according to a report published Tuesday in the journal Psychological Medicine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Try that in the Real World. Many of the problem children who commit crimes and display this behavior bring it with them from their pre-Army days and somehow they slipped through the recruitment net designed to prevent them from joining. This seems to me to be yet another way to cure the ills of society by using defense dollars. And a jobs program for those in the Psychology field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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