Great way to terrorize a bus full of schoolkids is having all their parents' phones blare a scary alarm they can't do anything about.
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Is there evidence that low-information, untargeted push notifications help with any kind of crime? Seems they're more optimized for panic.
this. And I was sitting here wondering why they don’t send a picture. System isn’t set up for MMS?
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If we just wanna worry, why not notifications about actual lethal dangers? "Alert: Uninspected gas mains & decaying infrastructure abound."
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(I've been skeptical of Amber alerts for a long time; evidence is they do almost nothing. twitter.com/anildash/statu )
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Interesting skeptical analysis of Amber Alert effectiveness 2.dashes.com/1c7nagv thanks to @PublicFig for the find.
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does sending out an Arabic sounding name w/o a picture make it worse? Target a community instead of individual?
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they help with weather radar.oreilly.com/2012/10/hurric but haven't seen data on geolocated txt-only alerts. I'm skeptical.
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evidence the AMBER alerts have had some success: amberalert.gov/statistics.htm
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yeah but I think NCMEC (source there) is the leading advocate for Amber alerts? Peer reviewed research:
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