Originally Posted by
cordelli
What they say in a telephone poll and what they do once they are in line are two totally different things. I've never seen anywhere near that amount of people opting out of a scan. The poll was based on results from 3,000 americians, not 3,000 americians who actually fly.
While it's an interesting number, I think the results would matter more if it was of people who fly or are standing in line.
There still appears to be quite a few people (alluded to above) that have opted out of flying altogether due to the TSA's overreach on screening. Count me as one of them. When even closely practical, I will drive instead of fly - and have been successful in a full opt out for quite some time in over 21k miles over the road last year. (Think the airlines would have liked some of that money spent on my travels?)
To only poll those that fly provides a false number as well - in general, they have already decided that it is (somewhat?) acceptable. Or, perhaps, they have resigned themselves to the fact that, unlike for me, alternate forms of transportation were not available for their travel plans.
Eventually, if you only poll those that fly, you'll end up with near 100% acceptability of screening methods as only those who accept it will fly...