Profiling
noun
Recording and analyzing a person's psychological and behavioral characteristics, so as to assess or predict their capabilities in a certain sphere.
The company uses profiling to identify potential leaders among its employees.
Often appears as...
- psychological profiling
- behavioral profiling
noun
The practice of categorizing people and predicting their behavior according to particular characteristics such as race or age.
Racial profiling has been a controversial issue in law enforcement.
Often appears as...
- racial profiling
- ethnic profiling
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Disapproving
verb
Creating a detailed description or analysis of a person or organization's distinctive characteristics and patterns.
The police are profiling the suspect to gather more information.
Often appears as...
- profiling a suspect
- profiling an individual
noun
In computing, the process of analyzing a program or software in terms of its functions, operations and performance.
The developer is profiling the app to see where improvements can be made.
Often appears as...
- software profiling
- program profiling
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Technical
noun
Recording and analyzing a person's psychological and behavioral characteristics, so as to assess or predict their capabilities in a certain sphere.
The company uses profiling to identify potential leaders among its employees.
Often appears as...
- psychological profiling
- behavioral profiling
noun
The practice of categorizing people and predicting their behavior according to particular characteristics such as race or age.
Racial profiling has been a controversial issue in law enforcement.
Often appears as...
- racial profiling
- ethnic profiling
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
Creating a detailed description or analysis of a person or organization's distinctive characteristics and patterns.
The police are profiling the suspect to gather more information.
Often appears as...
- profiling a suspect
- profiling an individual
noun
In computing, the process of analyzing a program or software in terms of its functions, operations and performance.
The developer is profiling the app to see where improvements can be made.
Often appears as...
- software profiling
- program profiling
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/2Capability Insight
Profiling in psychology is used to understand someone's abilities for specific roles.
Her profiling showed aptitude for strategic roles.
Pro Tip 2/2Ethical Dilemma
Psychological profiling can raise privacy concerns if used improperly.
Is our profiling respecting employee privacy?
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Peter Donnelly: How...
But more and more, in cases of DNA profiling -- this is another one -- we expect juries, who are ordinary people -- and it's documented they're very bad at this -- we expect juries to be able to cope with the sorts of reasoning that goes on. In other spheres of life, if people argued -- well, except possibly for politics --
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Julian Baggini: Is there...
all sorts of ways of profiling personality type, such as the Myers-Briggs tests, for example. I don't know if you've done those. A lot of companies use these for recruitment. You answer a lot of questions, and this is supposed to reveal something about your core personality.
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Your fingerprints reveal...
and we're going to build an identikit. I believe this is also a new era for criminal profiling. The work of the criminologist draws on the expert recognition of behavioral patterns that have been observed before to belong to a certain type, to a certain profile.
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What if we paid doctors...
on a constant basis, so that the health care system understands early enough if any assistance with regard to their health is needed. Physical examination, monitoring of lifetime health data as well as genetic sequencing, cardiometabolic profiling
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Dear Facebook, this is...
But keeping us engaged is how they make their money. The modern information environment is crystallized around profiling us and then segmenting us into more and more narrow categories to perfect this personalization process.
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Hire the hackers! -...
so nothing is going into into the hackers well I say nothing but actually there is one teeny-weeny little research unit in turin italy called the hackers profiling project and they are doing some fantastic research into the
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Combatting absurdity...
if ur but what they were really thing was racial profiling we don't do that here now let's go get that Brown and and this was a time where this kind of was coming in from offsides and I was just not sure what to do and
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How racial bias works --...
with racial profiling. In the typical case, people would look outside their window and see a black man in their otherwise white neighborhood and make the snap judgment that he was up to no good,
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What tech companies know...
but that can significantly impact their chances in life. So we need to ask can we trust these technologies when it comes to profiling our children? Can we? My answer is no. As an anthropologist,
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The path to ending...
say things like, "All of this talk of racial profiling is new to us." It is one thing for folks to not agree with you on the policy reforms necessary.
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Peter Donnelly: How...
But more and more, in cases of DNA profiling -- this is another one -- we expect juries, who are ordinary people -- and it's documented they're very bad at this -- we expect juries to be able to cope with the sorts of reasoning that goes on. In other spheres of life, if people argued -- well, except possibly for politics --
Video examples
Julian Baggini: Is there...
all sorts of ways of profiling personality type, such as the Myers-Briggs tests, for example. I don't know if you've done those. A lot of companies use these for recruitment. You answer a lot of questions, and this is supposed to reveal something about your core personality.
Video examples
Your fingerprints reveal...
and we're going to build an identikit. I believe this is also a new era for criminal profiling. The work of the criminologist draws on the expert recognition of behavioral patterns that have been observed before to belong to a certain type, to a certain profile.
Video examples
What if we paid doctors...
on a constant basis, so that the health care system understands early enough if any assistance with regard to their health is needed. Physical examination, monitoring of lifetime health data as well as genetic sequencing, cardiometabolic profiling
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Dear Facebook, this is...
But keeping us engaged is how they make their money. The modern information environment is crystallized around profiling us and then segmenting us into more and more narrow categories to perfect this personalization process.
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Hire the hackers! -...
so nothing is going into into the hackers well I say nothing but actually there is one teeny-weeny little research unit in turin italy called the hackers profiling project and they are doing some fantastic research into the
Video examples
Combatting absurdity...
if ur but what they were really thing was racial profiling we don't do that here now let's go get that Brown and and this was a time where this kind of was coming in from offsides and I was just not sure what to do and
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How racial bias works --...
with racial profiling. In the typical case, people would look outside their window and see a black man in their otherwise white neighborhood and make the snap judgment that he was up to no good,
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What tech companies know...
but that can significantly impact their chances in life. So we need to ask can we trust these technologies when it comes to profiling our children? Can we? My answer is no. As an anthropologist,
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The path to ending...
say things like, "All of this talk of racial profiling is new to us." It is one thing for folks to not agree with you on the policy reforms necessary.
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Martin Luther King III
American Activist
There is more racial integration in American life and many more people of color serving as elected officials and corporate leaders than there were during my father's time. But there is also reason for concern about new forms of racial oppression, such as measures to make it harder to vote, racial profiling and crushing public worker unions.
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Michelle Alexander
American Writer
I have spent years representing victims of racial profiling and police brutality and investigating patterns of drug law enforcement in poor communities of color - and attempting to help people who have been released from prison attempting to 're-enter' into a society that never seemed to have much use to them in the first place.
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Stephen Lang
American Actor
I don't want to, in any way, characterize a race or a people or get accused of racial profiling, but the Irish, as lyrical and romantic as they can be in their poetry, they can be every bit as repressed in their personal relations.
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Sarah Hall
English Writer
Show, don't tell, is a mantra repeated by tutors of creative writing courses the world over. As advice for amateurs, it is sound and helps avoid character profiling, unactivated scenes, and broken narrative frames.
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Hill Harper
American Actor
The best way to protect young black, brown, men of color, women of color, is to actually stop profiling, stop the prejudice, and stop the judgment first.
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Eric Holder
American Public Servant
I don't even talk about whether or not racial profiling is legal. I just don't think racial profiling is a particularly good law enforcement tool.
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Brian Sandoval
American Politician
Racial profiling is illegal, and I do not support it.
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Jan Brewer
American Politician
I don't think Americans would tolerate profiling.
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Chamillionaire
American Musician
There are cops who be racially profiling.
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Bobby Rush
American Politician
Racial profiling has to stop.
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Martin Luther King III
American Activist
There is more racial integration in American life and many more people of color serving as elected officials and corporate leaders than there were during my father's time. But there is also reason for concern about new forms of racial oppression, such as measures to make it harder to vote, racial profiling and crushing public worker unions.
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Michelle Alexander
American Writer
I have spent years representing victims of racial profiling and police brutality and investigating patterns of drug law enforcement in poor communities of color - and attempting to help people who have been released from prison attempting to 're-enter' into a society that never seemed to have much use to them in the first place.
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Stephen Lang
American Actor
I don't want to, in any way, characterize a race or a people or get accused of racial profiling, but the Irish, as lyrical and romantic as they can be in their poetry, they can be every bit as repressed in their personal relations.
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Sarah Hall
English Writer
Show, don't tell, is a mantra repeated by tutors of creative writing courses the world over. As advice for amateurs, it is sound and helps avoid character profiling, unactivated scenes, and broken narrative frames.
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Hill Harper
American Actor
The best way to protect young black, brown, men of color, women of color, is to actually stop profiling, stop the prejudice, and stop the judgment first.
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Eric Holder
American Public Servant
I don't even talk about whether or not racial profiling is legal. I just don't think racial profiling is a particularly good law enforcement tool.
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Brian Sandoval
American Politician
Racial profiling is illegal, and I do not support it.
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Jan Brewer
American Politician
I don't think Americans would tolerate profiling.
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Chamillionaire
American Musician
There are cops who be racially profiling.
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Bobby Rush
American Politician
Racial profiling has to stop.
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