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Guesses who you are from the wreckage of who you were.
means A person (or system) who builds a picture of someone's identity, habits, or likely behavior by analyzing patterns in data they've left behind.
from Built from 'profile,' which came into English via French 'profil' from Italian 'profilo' — literally a 'drawing in outline,' from 'profilare,' to draw in outline, rooted in Latin 'filum,' a thread or line. A profile was first a side-view sketch, the line that defines a face. The leap from 'outline of a face' to 'outline of a personality' happened as the word drifted into psychology and law enforcement in the 20th century — 'profiler' as a job title for someone who sketches a suspect's mind rather than their cheekbone is a 20th-century extension, popularized alongside criminal behavioral analysis.
- origin
- FBI behavioral unit formalized it in the 1970s
- method
- reads crime scenes like handwriting samples
- myth vs reality
- TV shows exaggerate accuracy wildly
- other meaning
- software that times your code, not your crimes