Airport insanity

James A. Donald jamesd at echeque.com
Mon Oct 18 10:07:26 PDT 2004


    --
John Kelsey
> It's one thing if you see some guy lighting a fuse sticking 
> out of his shoe, and quite another if you say "You look kinda 
> terroristy; I'm sending you off the plane."  This works as a 
> reasonable strategy only if:
>
> a.  The probability ratios don't work out so that the 
> overwhelming majority of people you throw off planes are 
> innocent.

Provided the number of people you throw off planes is rather 
small, I don't see the problem.

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