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Thanks for providing a citation! When you say that profiling isn't "reasonable," are you still using the word in the sense of "rational"? That seems inconsisten

by sjy 7y ago

Thanks for providing a citation! When you say that profiling isn't "reasonable," are you still using the word in the sense of "rational"? That seems inconsistent with your concession that (potentially racist or otherwise unjust) profiling can still be "statistically valid."

lmkg 7y ago
I'm still using it to mean "consistent with a principle of law." The idea of "rational" is closer than "proportional," but it still loses a lot of nuance. The issue with profiling is that the justification is "this person resembles a criminal," rather than "I have reason to believe a crime has been committed." Even if your methods have good precision and recall, this approach is not consistent with an existing principle of law.