{"product_id":"profiles-probabilities-and-stereotypes-9780674021181","title":"Profiles  Probabilities  and Stereotypes","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book employs a careful  rigorous  yet lively approach to the timely question of whether we can justly generalize about members of a group on the basis of statistical tendencies of that group. For instance  should a military academy exclude women because  on average  women are more sensitive to hazing than men? Should airlines force all pilots to retire at age sixty  even though most pilots at that age have excellent vision? Can all pit bulls be banned because of the aggressive characteristics of the breed? And  most controversially  should government and law enforcement use racial and ethnic profiling as a tool to fight crime and terrorism?  Frederick Schauer strives to analyze and resolve these prickly questions. When the law thinks like an actuarymakes decisions about groups based on averagesthe public benefit can be enormous. On the other hand  profiling and stereotyping may lead to injustice. And many stereotypes are self-fulfilling  while others are simply spurious. How  then  can we decide which stereotypes are accurate  which are distortions  which can be applied fairly  and which will result in unfair stigmatization?  These decisions must rely not only on statistical and empirical accuracy  but also on morality. Even statistically sound generalizations may sometimes have to yield to the demands of justice. But broad judgments are not always or even usually immoral  and we should not always dismiss them because of an instinctive aversion to stereotypes. As Schauer argues  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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67680993247285,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674021185","price":51.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674021181.jpg?v=1792072560","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/profiles-probabilities-and-stereotypes-9780674021181","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}