Fluctuations in silver prices can predict the probability of terrorist attacks?

Re:Fluctuations in silver prices can predict the probability... by im3w1l on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @07:52AM (#21202261)

I think it may be possible to get some signal from body measurements. Skin color, sex organs, teeth health (wealth proxy), scars/injuries (been in fights before?), maybe you could find some marker of chronic stress.

But yeah it's going to be pretty poor and not really actionable.

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Re:Fluctuations in silver prices can predict the probability... by hogFeast on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @12:34PM (#21204838)

The "primary" indicator was length of ring finger relative to index finger, as in - https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/06/talk-hand-scientists... - at the time, this was considered cutting edge...I understand it has been mostly discredited now.

You have also misunderstood slightly. It wasn't stuff like scars, or things correlated to wealth (or race...much good that would do in Northern Ireland or the Basque...I take it you don't know much about terrorism). It was purely body measurements iirc.

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Re:Fluctuations in silver prices can predict the probability... by tomatotomato37 on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @10:55AM (#21203825)

>Skin color

I see we are playing with fire today

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Re:Fluctuations in silver prices can predict the probability... by im3w1l on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @06:56PM (#21209084)

I mean, he is predicting whether someone is a terrorist... based on physical measurements. It's pretty much the definition of prejudice. What could he otherwise be doing?

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Re:Fluctuations in silver prices can predict the probability... by panpanna on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @04:50PM (#21207907)

I always thought all Pakistani peoples dark.

Then last week I realized two of my "Easter Europen" coworkers were in fact from Pakistan.

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