cognitive psychology. PhD 
This was Don Knuth analyzing FORTRAN programs in the wild!https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/spe.4380010203 …
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"A first idea for obtaining ‘typical’ programs was to go to Stanford’s Computation Center and rummage in the waste-baskets and the recycling bins. This gave results but showed immediately what should have been obvious: waste-baskets usually receive undebugged programs."
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"Thus our experience has suggested that frequency counts are so important they deserve a special name; let us call the collection of frequency counts the profile of a program." Apparently Knuth coined the term "profile".
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