Profiling - It’s a Tool 2 and Other Stuff: A preponderance of evidence

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In our efforts to make use of principles like profiling as a human survival tool we have to remember that the quality or fact of being greater in number, quantity, or importance drives the end results of using such a tool. The whole of the evidence used to determine if the profiling used is accurate, factual as humanly possible and of a moral certainty making the results irrefutable becomes critical. 

This process, much like the use of preponderance of evidence in the legal system, is how we give greater weight to perceive and distinguish its results as they would effect any actions we might take. The scales must be tilted far enough to favor one side or the other and if the scales remain in a balanced state then more information or facts or data must be found and weighed to cause the scales to tilt appropriately one way or the other. 

In order for preponderance of evidence to work in profiling we have to have the knowledge, understanding, training and experiences necessary to convince the user of its probable truth and/or accuracy, and not just on the “amount of evidence.”

In something like profiling, it is best that evidence collectively reaches a higher percentage, say 75%, over any one piece of evidence or those traits used to determine if the profiling meets reality as best as humanly possible, not the slightly over 50% used in civil suits, etc.

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