A minority report finds three-year-olds can be tested to find out their likelihood of becoming criminals or welfare dependents later on in life, based on an assessment of intelligence, receptive language, and motor skills.
The study, called “Childhood forecasting of a small segment of the population with large economic burden,” was conducted by researchers from three different universities observing almost 1,000 people in Dunedin, New Zealand over the span of 35 years, and published in Nature Human Behaviour. The study’s subjects were observed beginning in 1972, from they were age three up until they were 38 years old.
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