Re: ETHICAL ISSUE? "Bush on the Couch" by Justin Frank, M.D.

[Christopher D. Green]

Rick Adams wrote: Profiling is no more nor less a science than is clinical diagnosis. Possibly true (but this can cut two ways, can't it). It is based on very sound principles of both psychology and criminology. Certainly false. Of course profilers don't have the absurd accuracy and success rates that TV claims for them Yes, I recall clearly the utterly inaccurate profile for the "lone white gunman in his 30s" (which turned out to be two black men, one in his teens and one in his 50s) who shot up the Washington DC area a year or so ago. I'm with Nancy -- complete hoodoo (based, as one of the article cited by someone else pointed out, mainly on non-empirically-validated public stereotypes). "... and the only measure of your worth and your deeds will be the love you leave behind when you're gone."    -Fred Small, J.D., "Everything Possible" "The love you take will be equal to the love you make." (or something close to that) -The Beatles :-) -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 416-736-5115 ext. 66164 fax: 416-736-5814 http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ============================ . --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]