Great Moments in Social Science

Chicago public schools under new CEO Ron Huberman has come up with a "newfangled" statistical model predicting which kids will get shot.  According to the Chicago Sun-Times article:

The "brutal facts,'' [Huberman] said, are that such kids were more likely to be black males, homeless, special education students and students at alternative schools.  Such kids also tended to be at least two credits behind in high school, to have been absent for more than 40 percent of the school year and to have committed nearly one serious school violation per school year.

Amazing the stuff those newfangled statistical models can tell you.  No doubt gang membership and criminal activity had something to do with it as well.

I wonder what's the difference between a brutal fact and a gentle one.