Chapter 5 Blog post- Alex Hummel

I thought how the author approached the issue of racial profiling was an interesting topic of this chapter. This was relevant information because it was the authors comparison (that we all know) to economic screening. They are both are basically ways to sift through information. The author used a personal example of racial profiling, a white male on a bus in a black neighborhood, to illustrate how effective this "screening" can be. In his case, the profiling proved to be accurate.

In many cases, it proves to be inaccurate, in violation of rights, or racist. In other cases it can be very useful (arab males/ preventing terrorism). The author is saying that the same principle of economic screening is used by people as racial profiling. It sometimes works, sometimes doesn't and is better suited for economics then for people's skin color. It is finding out which information really matters and how to identify it that is the key for economics and the way profiling is most effective.