QUESTION 3
What do the authors identify as a benefit/benefits of the “algorithmic risk assessment”?
QUESTION 4
What do the authors identify as a disadvantage/disadvantages of the “algorithmic risk assessment”?
QUESTION 5
Who (what person or role?) is conducting the P.S.A.? and What are your thoughts about this?
QUESTION 6
Page 3., “The P.S.A. predicts that 92% of the people that the algorithm flags for pretrial violence will not get arrested for a violent crime.”
Which statistic are they referring to here?
A. Interal Consistency
B. Content Validity
C. Predictive Validity
D. Estimator Reliability
QUESTION 7
Page 3., “Applying ‘big data’ for forecasting to our existing criminal justice practices is not just inadequate….”
Which approach are there referring to here? Answer: Nomothetic or Idiographic
QUESTION 8
Conduct a brief literature review on PsycInfo about the P.S.A.
What do you find? Cite any empirical articles you find discussing the PSA.
QUESTION 9
Check out the P.S.A. website : https://www.psapretrial.org/about
Do they provide research supporting the P.S.A.? How is this different than your search on PsycInfo? Why do you think there is a discrepancy? What does this mean to you?
QUESTION 10
Where was your current reading assignment (The Problems with Risk Assessment Tools) published? Is this an empirical source?
