Scientifically, You Are Likely In the Slowest Line

MojoKid writes "As you wait in the checkout line for the holidays, your observation is most likely correct. That other line is moving faster than yours. That's what Bill Hammack (the Engineer Guy), from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois — Urbana proves in this video. Ironically, the most efficient set-up is to have one line feed into several cashiers. This is because if any one line slows because of an issue, the entry queue continues to have customers reach check-out optimally. However, this is also perceived by customers as the least efficient, psychologically."

Comments

Re:What's so new about single line queue?

[Random BedHead Ed]

This is the norm in Britain. And it works. But trying to get people to do this in the States is like pulling teeth.

Scientifically, the title is bogus

[Galestar]

Watching the video, the conclusion that the video makes is "...You are likely not in the fastest line".
That does not necessarily mean that the reverse (the title) is true -- and yet they somehow jump to that conclusion with the title "...You are likely in the slowest Line."

Can we get some people who actually understand this magical thing called "logic" to start editing Slashdot?