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Profiles, probabilities, and stereotypes /

This book employees 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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schauer, Frederick F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: painting with a broad brush
  • In training with the greeks
  • Pit bulls, golden retrievers, and other dangerous dogs
  • A ride on the blue bus
  • Eighty-year-old pilots and twelve-year-old voters
  • The women of the Virginia Military Institute
  • The profilers
  • The usual suspects
  • Two cheers for Procrustes
  • Ships with altered names
  • The generality of law
  • Generality, community, and the wars of the Roqueforts
  • Coda: from the justice of generality to the generality of justice.