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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
What is the definition of "profiling"? I asked Penske and he ducked the question.
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I kind of liked your definition: Where the "government (pays) more attention to people who are more likely to pose a threat and pay less attention to people who are less likely to pose a threat".
Profiling is coming up with a likely description of a person who is more likely to highjack a flight (or as you say, pose a threat). Nervous, figity, muslim, one way ticket, Middle Eastern descent, flying without children or wife, flying in groups of males etc. If someone has a few of those characteristics they get searched more thoroughly, if most of them, a full interrogation.
