Does school start too early? It turns out that pre-8am school start times are wreaking havoc on American teens. Studies show that teens have biologically different sleep schedules from other age groups. Teens feel sleepy later in the night and need 8-10 hours of sleep. The early school start time doesn’t allow them to get proper rest, which affects their ability to learn and their mental health. Sleep deprivation has been linked to depression, so discussions regarding school start times have started flaring up recently in America.
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Societal Issues
AI Predicts Crime A Week In Advance With 90 Per Cent Accuracy
An artificial intelligence model built by Ishanu Chattopadhyay and his colleagues analysed crime data in Chicago from 2014 to 2016 and managed to predict future levels of crime down to the nearest 300 metres, a week before they actually happened. While extremely useful, this artificial intelligence has been shown to expose racial prejudice in law enforcement. Hopefully, as the study’s data and methodology have been made available for others to evaluate, these prejudices can be avoided in the next iteration. Read full article here
Merv
August 15, 2022
