Profiles, probabilities, and stereotypes [[electronic resource] /] / Frederick Schauer
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Schauer Frederick F
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| Titolo: |
Profiles, probabilities, and stereotypes [[electronic resource] /] / Frederick Schauer
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 303.3/85 |
| Soggetto topico: | Stereotypes (Social psychology) |
| Decision making | |
| Judgment | |
| Forecasting | |
| Justice | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Profiles, probabilities and stereotypes |
| ISBN: | 0-674-04324-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910454675803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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