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US
/ˈpɹoʊˌfaɪɫɪŋ/
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[ UK /pɹˈəʊfaɪlɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /pɹˈəʊfaɪlɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- recording a person's behavior and analyzing psychological characteristics in order to predict or assess their ability in a certain sphere or to identify a particular group of people
How To Use profiling In A Sentence
- Will the historian of the future be adequately served if only the internal reports profiling donors survive?
- RAND, an independent research agency hired by the New York Police Department to analyze street-stop data in 2007 after public outcry, found little racial profiling.
- High stability against outside influences thanks to Auto - profiling ( On - Peak - measurement ).
- They downplay, or justify, the proliferation of white supremacist - tinged paramilitary groups, police violence, and racial profiling.
- The hour-long Director's Series will be a highlight this summer, profiling today's top Hollywood helmers, including Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorcese, and Clint Eastwood.
- Convince a conservative that some southern sheriff is really using racial profiling as an excuse to harass black people and you will find that conservatives are just as outraged as anyone, but the mere potential for this to occur is no argument against racial profiling any more than the potential for a policeman to abuse his authority is an argument against having policemen. The Volokh Conspiracy » Affirmative Action and Racial Profiling Revisited
- The chapter on comparison of depth profiling methods is likely to be particularly beneficial to the newcomer.
- If SB-1070 ends up exacerbating racial profiling, as many have predicted is likely, it will also open local police agencies up to a slew of lawsuits related to potential civil rights abuses. Think Progress » Huckabee: New Law Will Open Arizona Up To A ‘Lawsuit Bonanza’
- There's no psychological profiling or involuntary behavioural modification going on here, just a cassette playing a muffled selection of old dance anthems, the hits of Ibiza '97.
- The third is for companies to acquire software for profiling, cross-analysing and clustering the census variables against their own customer records.