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by dylan604 872 days ago
Like all things, I think the signal being described is just one type of indicator/filter. When used alone, it probably narrows down but not to numbers a mere mortal could handle. When combined with additional filtering, it probably helps reduce down to numbers that is much more manageable.

If you only used "owns a copy of To Kill A Mockingbird" to indicate a serial killer, we'd have a lot of false positives of serial killers.