Profiles, probabilities, and stereotypes / Frederick Schauer.
Profiles, probabilities, and stereotypes / Frederick Schauer.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003.
Date
2003.
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N303.385/ 8
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English
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Physical content
xiii, 359 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents
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. T...
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Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
2003.
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Summary
"This 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...
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Profiles, probabilities, and stereotypes / Frederick Schauer.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-353) and index.
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N303.385/ 8
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74VKDgwgoaZM
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ISBN
0674011864 (alk. paper)
9780674011861 (alk. paper)
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303.385
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991019034179702626
