Saturday, August 22, 2015
More Game Theory
More Game-Theory crap. The same nonsense that ruined Greece's chance to get out of EU. These Danes --- Well, I could just stop there, couldn't I?
but I won't. These Danes "analyzed" the behavior of lines or queues that start moving at a specific time, like theater tickets or sports games or the latest Apple Deviltool. This was NOT for constant queues like grocery checkouts or bank tellers.
Alleged solution: The line moves faster if you do LIFO instead of FIFO. Give the first ticket to the last person who arrives.
Well, I'll grant that SOMETHING would happen faster if you did that. You'd have a riot, with everyone jumping through the ticket window and squashing the clerk.
Unusually for Game-Theory idiots, these "researchers" acknowledged that LIFO might not work in such situations but should work in non-physical computer-based lines where people can't see how many are in front, and can't tell how many "clerks" are working.
Nope. Even in that situation, with most of the human aspects eliminated, the "researchers" have still ignored one basic human fact.
People who arrive early KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING. They KNOW what the line is for. They are organized and have their money or tax info or whatever READY TO GO.
People who join a line late are less organized and less prepared. They may not even know what the line is for. It takes MORE TIME to handle them, so the organized people are delayed even more than they would be by a LIFO with equal people.
¶ 5:48 PM 
