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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (31078)	10/6/2001 1:23:36 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Off the top of my head, I'd guess that "taking stock" is the verb one would use for the act of assessing the likelihood a particular individual might represent of being a member of a category of interest (examples might be child molester; drug smuggler; bomber); but that "profiling" would be the verb that describes constructing the categories. It would be a compiling of stats, one hopes an objective rather than racist or other biased compiling, that would make "taking stock" more competently done. A jury-selection consultant "takes stock" of prospective jurors based on what he or she "knows" about classes or people, that is on the statistical or intuitive "profiles" they bring to the courtroom. If their intuitions digress much from accurate statistical profiles, they will lose cases for those who hire them and be forced to get respectable jobs.