Connor Simpkins (class of 2025) was in kindergarten when the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting happened. He has no memory of that day but grew up in the aftermath.| k12ssdb.substack.com
When the 'Friday night lights' turn on this fall, a sad reality is there will be gunfire on the gridiron at 30-40 high schools across the country. Few (if any) of these schools will have a plan.| k12ssdb.substack.com
Our findings are deafening as the data shows a huge amount of noise (variation) in how police officers assess the severity of school shooting threats.| k12ssdb.substack.com
We have a $176 billion federal agency dedicated to detecting and preventing terrorism in the homeland. Why aren't they being used to stop school shootings?| k12ssdb.substack.com
A 15-year-old girl opened fire inside a classroom on Monday morning in Madison, WI. This shooting follows the same patterns as hundreds of other attacks at schools.| k12ssdb.substack.com
The T word--terrorism--is rarely used following a school shooting, even when there are political motives that clearly fit the definition.| k12ssdb.substack.com
Missing warning signs, breakdowns in communication, flawed incident command system, and not imagining multiple threat scenarios is combined with the "it will never happen here" mentality.| k12ssdb.substack.com
Groups of people make better predictions that individuals. Using the wisdom of crowds can reduce variability (noise) in decision-making.| k12ssdb.substack.com
Overview of survey questions, fictional scenarios, and methods used to measure the 'noise'--or undesirable variability in decision making--when police officers assess threats.| k12ssdb.substack.com
Part 1 of my unpublished academic journal article based on Kahneman's theory of noise and the undesirable variability in expert decision making.| k12ssdb.substack.com