New tool can identify soldiers most likely to commit violent crimes, study shows

Tuesday, October 6, 2015 - 16:20 in Mathematics & Economics

In the science fiction thriller “Minority Report,” a police force known as PreCrime uses mutated human psychics to identify criminals before they act. The U.S. Army is working toward a similar goal — not by reading minds but by crunching data. Using the military records of all 975,057 soldiers...

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