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Originally Posted by stealthn
They were profiled
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If you were a shop owner who had looked back at years of surveillance video and discovered that 90% of the people who shoplifted from your store wore orange shirts, but only 2% of the people who entered your store actually wore orange shirts, would you be more vigilant when someone in an orange shirt walked in?
Profiling is certainly not an exact - or sometimes even fair - science, but it's done every day, and for good reason.
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