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I’m Hilko, a Communications and Social Psychology student in Amsterdam
We are Jerome, Chris, and Jack, contributors of this blog
About us
As time passes, we will share our life, our opinions, our thoughts and our adventures with you. It might not all be strictly factual, but it’s all true
I also do web design and web hosting. Ironically, I don't have a site for that yet.
Nevertheless, don't hesitate to contact me if you need a website, or if you want to see my portfolio.
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Check Hilko's old blog for all his ramblings between 2006 and november 2009
Is criminal profiling an useful tool for catching criminals? According to Malcolm Gladwell, it’s not. Comparing the techniques used by psychics and astrologers (such as cold reading) with those of criminal profilers, he argues that it’s anything but a scientifically sound tool to catch bad guys. They had been at it for almost six hours. The best minds in the F.B.I. had given the Wichita detectives a blueprint for their investigation. Look for an American male with a possible connection to the military. His I.Q. will be above 105. He will like to masturbate, and will be aloof and selfish in bed. He will drive a decent car. He will be a “now” person. He won’t be comfortable with women. But he may have women friends. He will be a lone wolf. But he will be able to function in social settings. He won’t be unmemorable. But he will be unknowable. He will be either never married, divorced, or married, and if he was or is married his wife will be younger or older. He may or may not live in a rental, and might be lower class, upper lower class, lower middle class or middle class. And he will be crazy like a fox, as opposed to being mental. If you’re keeping score, that’s a Jacques Statement, two Barnum Statements, four Rainbow Ruses, a Good Chance Guess, two predictions that aren’t really predictions because they could never be verified—and nothing even close to the salient fact that BTK was a pillar of his community, the president of his church and the married father of two.
