"No one stabs another person 20 times simply to kill them."

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ARRELL — 9/11/2008 4:39:15 AM (archived)

Unless that person is INTENTIONALLY trying to give the investigators a misleading impression ...

An extremely organized killer could stage his crimes to look disorganized and improvised simply to lead investigators to create a misleading profile...

I think it is unwise to use profiles to narrow down a pool of suspects- I think the proper use is to let facts and evidence determine your pool of suspects and then see how the profile applies.

In Asimov's Foundation series he had the science of Psychohistory.... a statistical/psychological science that could predict the future of human civilization- one of the rules of the science was that it would not work if the population was aware of the science....

Criminal Profiling becomes self defeating when the criminal is aware of the techniques used to profile him.

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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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