The words profile or profiling relate to the collection of information about a subject from a number of points of view and the collating the findings in an overall description. Extrapolation in terms of prediction of a person's thoughts, feelings or behavior, based on the initial assessment may then follow.
- Demographic profile
- Developmental profile
- Forensic profiling, used in several types of forensic sciences
- Linguistic profiling
- Profile (measurement)
- Profiling of political leaders
- Offender profiling
- Racial profiling
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