FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - Do self opt outs HELP the TSA?
View Single Post
Old Jan 11, 2011 | 10:20 pm
  #17  
oboshoe
 
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: RDU
Posts: 263
Originally Posted by eyecue
We had 17 opt outs on my shift today and nearly the same yesterday.
out of 6k that is not a high rate.
yummy. some real numbers.

You say it was a "shift". I'll assume 8 hours.

6,000. You don't indicate if that is total passengers or total naked scans. Lets go with your unstated intention that it is 6,000 naked scans.

If a naked scan take 45 seconds to complete. It would require 13,333 minutes to naked scan 6,000 people, or 222.222 hours.

But your shift is only 8 hours long. Therefore we need more machines so that we can fit 222.222 scan hours into 8 hours. To do so would require 27 Naked Scan machines.

SO we have two possibilities:

1) Eyecue worked an 8 hour shift.
6,000 passengers were scanned using 27 machines. Only 17 opted out. That 2.8% opt out rate. That in line with government figures.

OR

2) Eyecue worked an 8 hour shift.
6,000 passengers were scanned using both the WTMD and naked scanner. Only 17 opted out. A 2.8% opt out rate was reported using COMBINED WTMD and naked scan counts. The ratio of naked scan to WTMD was conveniently left out of the story.

Conclusion?

Only #2 is remotely possible. What airport has 27 peepshow booths in operation for 8 hours? Answer NONE.

This also leads us to conclude that government figures of about a 2% opt out rate also includes figures for WTMD scanned passengers as well.
oboshoe is offline