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In both cases it doesn’t actually work. In the case of the data-backed nonsense it’s been used to justify holding people past their prison sentence. In this ca
by cgriswald 6y ago
In both cases it doesn’t actually work. In the case of the data-backed nonsense it’s been used to justify holding people past their prison sentence. In this case it’s demonstrably worse. In the general case anything that’s “sciency” but doesn’t actually work leads to bad outcomes because people are far more likely to buy into it or at least less likely to call out obvious BS.
- treis 6y ago>In the case of the data-backed nonsense it’s been used to justify holding people past their prison sentence. I'm not sure why you assume that it's keeping people in prison and not being used to let them out.
- a1369209993 6y agoFrom https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23655017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23655017 (your GGP) and supposedly originally https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/78691781-c9b7-30a0-9a0a-3ff76e8bfe58 https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/78691781-c9b7... : > In America this is being used to decide whether to keep them in jail even after they have served their full sentence. That may not be true, but the reason why they assume that is that basch and/or the BBC said that.