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[Spanky]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I'm still waiting for an explanation of what you mean by "profiling."

What is wrong with what I posted earlier where I used your definition:

Originally posted by Spanky
I kind of liked your definition: Where the "government (pays) more attention to people who are more likely to pose a threat and pay less attention to people who are less likely to pose a threat".

Profiling is coming up with a likely description of a person who is more likely to highjack a flight (or as you say, pose a threat). Nervous, figity, muslim, one way ticket, Middle Eastern descent, flying without children or wife, flying in groups of males etc. If someone has a few of those characteristics they get searched more thoroughly, if most of them, a full interrogation.