Wendy Grossman interviews Patrick Ball (deputy director of the Science and Human Rights Program at the AAAS) about statistical analysis of human rights violations.

Can you spot anything in the careers or biographies of military officers that makes them more likely to violate human rights?
What was the big risk for Salvadorean military officers committing huge human rights violations? US training. It's very, very clear. I think US training selects the officers who are the most motivated, and the way that you distinguished yourself in the Salvadorean military in the 1980s was by killing people. So the most motivated officers are also the worst. But what this also says is that US training is useless for restraining human rights abuse.

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