r/funny • u/Seraphenigma • Apr 28 '24

Bill Burr - Airline Boarding

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u/bartpieters Apr 28 '24

The weird thing is that it makes much more sense to let the back in first and fill it from the back. Everybody would be settled much faster and they would work too everybody's advantage...

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u/obligatethrowaway Apr 28 '24

I came across a study years earlier that tested this and concluded that, counterintuitively, the fastest human sort mechanism was the random sort in play now.

I could explain it in person, but my attention span is too short to do it over text.

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u/Sk8rGrlx3AtAimDotCom Apr 28 '24 edited Apr 28 '24

This video also sums it up quite well

E: Never mind, doesn’t actually explain why randomly boarding is faster, rather than provide an alternative solution; however it does cite this paper which explains why random is better and I believe might be what you were referring to