➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:
NY: How Big Data can help save endangered kids (Opinion)
New York Post – October 16, 2016
According to Richard Gelles, dean of the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania, “Even the state-of-the-art assessment tools being used in New York are no better at predicting risk for a child than if you flipped a coin.” Gelles says social workers using “clinical judgment” and their own “expertise” to determine which children should be removed from their homes is “simply inadequate.”
http://nypost.com/2016/10/16/how-big-data-can-help-save-endangered-kids/