From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 25 2002 - 13:03:36 MDT
Harvey Newstrom wrote:
This is very key. We need a higher caliber of security screeners. They
should be smarter. They should have more training. They should have
more expertise in the field.
### How much money will you spend per QALY gained and financial losses
prevented with such expanded security?
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It is only when detailed information is not available that people are
tempted to start profiling. Profiling means that you don't have
specific information about a person, so you extrapolate it from the
statistical averages for whatever group they are in. The very act of
profiling is an admission that there is not enough information and one
is trying to fill in the gaps.
### Define the way you use the word "profiling" and differentiate it from
the procedure Lee mentioned - El Al guards letting 80 year-old grandmas from
Kansas go through without a cavity search.
I have the impression that "profiling" is being used here to mean "organized
sloppiness" in security. What is not "real" information in profiling? The
fact that grandmas from Kansas are unlikely to blow up planes is real, and
it can be used for profiling, at least as long as terrorists don't develop a
method for posing as low-risk persons.
Rafal
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