Virginia Tech

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The victims.

How many danger signs about a trouble student are enough? Yes but. The failure of predictive profiling: "There is no accurate or useful profile of the 'the school shooter.'" Unlike workplace shooters, who tend to be fairly well educated middle aged failures with a history of mental problems, the only true common denominator of

Comments

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"1979 a schoolgirl in San Diego shot two people."

"the only true common denominator of high school shooters is that they are all boys."

Que? those profilers need to listen to more pop songs ...

In an odd way

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Quite. It does reinforce the central thesis about predictive profiling not working.

But Steve Sailer does manage to refute his own claim about being all boys.