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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821026603321

Autore

Schauer Frederick F

Titolo

Profiles, probabilities, and stereotypes / / Frederick Schauer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003

ISBN

0-674-26707-9

0-674-04324-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 p.)

Disciplina

303.3/85

Soggetti

Stereotypes (Social psychology)

Decision making

Judgment

Forecasting

Justice

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2003.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-353) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface Introduction: Painting with a Broad Brush 1. In Training with the Greeks 2. Pit Bulls, Golden Retrievers, and Other Dangerous Dogs 3. A Ride on the Blue Bus 4. Eighty-Year-Old Pilots and Twelve-Year-Old Voters 5. The Women of the Virginia Military Institute 6. The Profilers 7. The Usual Suspects 8. Two Cheers for Procrustes 9. Ships with Altered Names 10. The Generality of Law 11. Generality, Community, and the Wars of the Roqueforts Coda: From the Justice of Generality to the Generality of Justice Notes Index

Sommario/riassunto

Can we justly generalize about members of a group on the basis of statistical tendencies of that group? Schauer argues that there is good profiling and bad profiling. If we can effectively determine which is which, we stand to gain, not lose, a measure of justice.