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Criminal Profilers: A pseudoscience?

Jody — 9/11/2008 2:00:51 AM (archived)

I would like to discuss this...I have no opinion...yet... because I thought up the question watching Criminal Minds tonight.

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Criminal Profilers: A pseudoscience? - Jody - 9/11/2008 2:00:51 AM
- re: Criminal Profilers: A pseudoscience? - gbaikie - 9/11/2008 3:11:00 PM
  - I would not call the use of inductive reasoning "soft science". (n/t) - alcaray - 9/12/2008 7:45:06 PM
  - By George, I think he's got it! - Mary Anne - 9/12/2008 6:44:09 PM
    - "Microscopes are prudent in an emergency" - ER - 9/12/2008 8:12:51 PM
- Yes. - ER - 9/11/2008 3:30:47 AM
  - You might find it interesting to investigate the process a bit. - Bowser - 9/11/2008 4:23:12 AM
    - That's not profiling. That's detective work. - ER - 9/11/2008 10:26:48 AM
      - Profiling is not what you see on TV. - alcaray - 9/12/2008 1:25:06 AM
      - OK, don't. - Bowser - 9/11/2008 2:27:43 PM
    - "No one stabs another person 20 times simply to kill them." - ARRELL - 9/11/2008 4:39:15 AM
      - Obviously that could happen. And when is the last time you heard of that? - Bowser - 9/11/2008 5:10:27 AM
        
        "And when is the last time you heard of that?"- I guess my point is... - ARRELL - 9/11/2008 5:24:43 AM
- Nope. Profiling is a science. - Eri - 9/11/2008 3:02:16 AM
  - "... if it didn't work, they wouldn't still be using it." - ER - 9/11/2008 1:10:29 PM
  - Well.... - ARRELL - 9/11/2008 3:41:45 AM
- No. - Bowser - 9/11/2008 2:19:33 AM
  - Just the facts, ma'am. - ER - 9/11/2008 1:02:17 PM
    - I don't believe one has to worry about profiling being taken too seriously. - Bowser - 9/11/2008 2:36:56 PM

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