To Profile or Not to Profile?

by Sam Harris
Sam Harris Blog
May 27, 2012

https://www.legal-project.org/2606/to-profile-or-not-to-profile

Excerpt:

I recently wrote two articles in defense of "profiling" in the context of airline security (1 & 2), arguing that the TSA should stop doing secondary screenings of people who stand no reasonable chance of being Muslim jihadists. I knew this proposal would be controversial, but I seriously underestimated how inflamed the response would be. Had I worked for a newspaper or a university, I could well have lost my job over it.

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