TSA Screening Barely Working Better Than Chance

rwise2112 writes "The General Accounting Office (GAO) has completed a study of the TSAs SPOT (Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques) program and found the program is only slightly better than chance at finding criminals. Given that the TSA has spent almost a billion dollars on the program, that's a pretty poor record. As a result, the GAO is requesting that both Congress and the president withhold funding from the program until the TSA can demonstrate its effectiveness."

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Re:i wish the story weren't bs

[TheRealMindChild]

Ah yes... meta-analysis. You can't take that junk seriously. It is double rounding nonsense. Statistical analysis casts out anomalous data (data that seems to be erroneous for some reason or another), and the criteria of determining what data is anomalous is an exercise of the person doing the analysis. Now you are doing analysis on those analyses, casting out more data. One more step removed than should be comfortable for anybody to take seriously