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Child Welfare and Predictive Risk Modeling

With child welfare agencies too often ignoring past records of abuse often in the name of racial equity using Big Data may be the best way to protect at-risk kids. ....

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Child Welfare and Predictive Risk Modeling

“It really makes you wonder, ‘Where did it all go wrong? Why wasn’t this child protected?’” Those were the words of Merced, California police sergeant Kalvin Haygood, among the first to find the lifeless body of eight-year-old Sophia Mason earlier this year. “It was probably the most disturbing thing I’ve seen in my career,” he […] ....

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Hot nights are disrupting our sleep — and climate change is making it worse, study finds

A new study analyzing the sleep data for thousands of people worldwide has found that we’re getting less sleep as nighttime temperatures increase, and it’s only going to get worse with climate change. ....

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