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Subject:        Re: Profiling map thieves.
Date:   Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:16:49 -0400
From:   Frank Wihbey <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
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    I'm sure he is a sophisticated person who has worked long with the public and so certainly did not mean everyone with an affable demeanor.  Give him a break.  He was trying to do a good deed for us librarians and cartographers.
  I think he meant INCONSISTENTLY showing those certain characteristics based on all the other clues, verbal and non-verbal, that we who work with the public pick up on all the time.

Frank

"Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum"              <[log in to unmask]> on Monday, October 15, 2007 at 4:18 PM -0500 wrote:
>I find nothing useful in these profiles to help identify anyone who might do similar acts in the future.  That they have traits in common does not suggest a profile at all.  That is, of course, unless we want to target everyone who has an affable
>demeanor.  How exactly does one recognize the falsely well-adjusted from the sincerely well-adjusted?