http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2005/01/is_ethnic_and_o.html The value of using group membership in judging unobserved characteristics is uncontroversial most of the time, and so is hardly noticed. For example, automobile insurance companies consider young unmarried males as a relevant group in determining driver insurance premiums because... en-us http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2005/01/is_ethnic_and_o.html Although oversampling a defined group does not involve "probable cause" in the legal sense, it approaches "probably cause," if properly based on the data. There seems no reason other than political correctness to give our 80-year old Adventist woman ...