Human psychology could be making an airport screener's job even harder,a new study found. Credit: StockXpert
From Live Science:
When airport screeners don’t expect to find a gun in your bag, they likely won’t, suggests new research that shows that when people think something will be difficult to find, they don't look as hard as when they think they're likely to see what they're searching for.
Call it the needle-in-the-haystack effect: Humans aren’t adapted to finding rare things.
"We know that if you don't find it often, you often don't find it," said cognitive scientist Jeremy Wolfe of Harvard Medical School. "Rare stuff gets missed."
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My Comment: This is news that I am sure Al Qaeda and their terrorist affiliates are more than aware of.
1 comment:
I still prefer the Israeli approach; less dependence on gadgets, more on face-to-face (on the spot) psychological eval. The same training that our cops have; fidgeting, nervousness (or instead being 'too calm') are triggers that can be noticed.
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