A Natural Experiment in Predicting the Dangerousness of Juveniles Revealed

question 2

Multiple Choice

A natural experiment in predicting the dangerousness of juveniles revealed that

• A) some prediction instruments are can effectively identify only high risk offenders
• B) there were five true positives for every false positive
• C) judges were remarkably inaccurate in identifying which juveniles were high risk and which were low risk
• D) judges were reasonably accurate in identifying high risk juveniles at the expense of a high rate of false positives

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