Word: burgesses
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...can’t trust his gut, and Harvard students don’t like it any better than most. I don’t like it either, but whenever I’m feeling perceptive—especially during shopping week—I try to remember Ernest Burgess and the Illinois Parole Board...
...late 1920s, Burgess wondered how to predict whether paroled criminals would strike again. To find out, he followed 3,000 Illinois inmates as they left prison, drawing up a list of 21 features that made prisoners likely to violate their parole (age, number of crimes, nature of crimes, etc.). He counted the factors for each prisoner, and predicted which would once again commit crimes and be caught...
...course, experts are loath to accept their fallibility, and, since Burgess published his study in 1928, dozens of studies have set out to prove Burgess wrong, only to find that his insights generally hold true: crude formulas are better than personal interviews for nearly everything, from admitting college students to deciding who should undergo electroshock therapy...
Daniel said that the best thing people can do to help the case is spread awareness—especially to people living in Southern California—and keep an eye out for either Donna or Burgess...
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Donna H. Jou or John Steven Burgess is asked to call the Orange County Sheriff’s Department...