Concern Over School Shootings Has Led to the Assessment of Many

question 52

Multiple Choice

Concern over school shootings has led to the assessment of many youths and attempts to predict which youths will be potential shooters.The problem is that many of these youths will be wrongly classified as potential shooters because we overestimate the prevalence of school shooting incidents.This example reflects

• A)True negatives
• B)False negatives
• C)True positives
• D)False positives
• E)The base rate problem