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UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill.
(www.statewatch.org)
this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2025
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570 recorded homicides between March 2023 and 2024.
Data on "hundreds of thousands" of people can't provide the distinguishing markers to even have a stab at this.
It can reliably predict when people are black, though.
It can predict blackness with up to 63% accuracy!
Is 63% significant?
If I was clever I might have said 60%
Because 3/5
Eh that's more of a US thing
1/e is about 37%, maybe 1-1/e?
I see what you did there 😄