On Sat, 28 Dec 2013 22:14:30 +0000, Doctor John wrote:

> On 28/12/13 21:31, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> 
>> Millions of people travel by air in the US every day, and this doesn't
>> happen every time, or even close to every time.  It might be
>> interesting to see what percentage of travelers actually have problems
>> like this going through security checkpoints at US airports.  I'd wager
>> it's significantly less than 1%, and probably significantly fewer than
>> 1 in 100,000.
>> 
>> Jim
>> 
>> 
> You are, of course, absolutely correct. However, let's put your estimate
> down at the low end - say 1 in 1,000,000. There are approximately 1.5
> million passenger flights per day in the US, therefore there may be 550
> such incidents every year ... and (realises that there are 150
> murders/day in the US) <stops>
> 
> Anecdotal evidence is a bitch to deal with. Gimme hard stats.

That it is - and I agree, hard numbers are much better to deal with.  As 
Darren likes to say, "The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'." - and this 
demonstrates why that's the case.

> Still a little bit of training and better selection (not in that order)
> wouldn't go amiss.

Absolutely agreed. :)

Jim

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