Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes

by Frederick Schauer

Book Overview

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"