Criminal profiling: What makes them tick?
in Psychology ·
silverwalker27 said:Personality tests should be conducted periodically and mandated for every citizen—it would provide a solid foundation for drawing meaningful conclusions after a few years.
To be honest, I find it quite unsettling that psychology, as a scientific discipline, cannot predict who might turn into a killer due to standard life stressors. It’s essentially like physics being unable to determine if a bridge is going to collapse or not. (After all, the entire purpose of scientific theories is to forecast outcomes and ensure those results align with reality.)
Man, what I just read actually gave me chills...
How on earth can you even compare a bridge to the human brain??? The human brain is easily the most sophisticated, intricate structure in existence.
You can predict how a bridge behaves because it follows specific laws of physics that actually make sense—laws that are more or less the same for every bridge out there. But the behavior and reactions of a human brain? You'll never be able to predict that with certainty because of pure individuality, sheer complexity, and the fact that there aren't universal "laws" that govern how every single person reacts to things...
And let's not forget, we still barely even understand how the brain works to begin with...