The Dark Side of Profiles
22 / Culture and Cultural Typology / Professional Development for Type-Practitioners
January 7, 2015 13
The typical debate—‘Profiling is bad!’ vs. ‘We’re not profiling!’—has not been particularly productive. Racial and ethnic stereotyping continues despite decades of public condemnation. It seems to me that the questions we really need to be considering are more along the lines of: ‘What is profiling?’ ‘How and when does it lead to bad outcomes?’