Predicting teen boozers. The article admits that this is not an accurate predictor, yet there in the blurb we get mentions of intervention. So, children will be given personality tests and someone will be asking deeply personal and private questions about family history so that the state can intervene to prevent binge drinking.
Wonderful. More Orwellian behaviour predicated on junk science.
The findings will also be applied to other fields, including drug abuse and smoking.
Well, you just knew smoking would get a look in, didn’t you?
Tell them to take the sex and travel option?
Just a thought.
Although it’s some decades since I was a teenager, I can still recall how I was then. I would have refused to cooperate with any such prodnosing. Not much has changed, it seems…
Binge drinking being a couple of pints