Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes

by Frederick Schauer

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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 to retire at age sixty, even though most pilots at that age have excellent vision? Can all pit bulls...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0674021185

ISBN13:9780674021181

Release Date:April 2006

Publisher:Belknap Press

Length:384 Pages

Weight:0.88 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.2" x 7.9"

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