Due to a Recent Increase of School Shootings, One High

question 52

Multiple Choice

Due to a recent increase of school shootings, one high school principal has decided to enlist a profiler to attempt to determine which students are at risk to commit a school shooting. The profiler provides the principal with a list of students said to be at risk. Which of the following is a potential problem with this procedure?

• A)Such a profile would target an extremely high percentage of school-aged adolescents who would never be a threat
• B)Such a profile may give an exact percentage of students at risk
• C)The characteristics on which the profiling is done may or may not be accurate
• D)None of these are correct.

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