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If you find yourself waiting in a long queue at an airport or bus terminus
this holiday, will you try to analyze what it is about queuing that makes you
angry Or will you just get angry with the nearest official
Professor Richard Larson, an electrical engineer at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, hates queuing but rather than tear his hair out, he
decided to study the subject. (46) . He cites an experiment
at Houston airport where passengers had to walk for one minute from the plane to
the baggage reclaim and then wait a further seven minutes to collect their
luggage. Complaints were frequent, especially from those who had spent seven
minutes watching passengers with just hand baggage get out
immediately. The airport authorities decided to lengthen the
walk from the aircraft, so that instead of a one-minute fast walk, the
passengers spent six minutes walking (47) . The extra walk
extended the delay by five minutes for those carrying only hand baggage, but
passenger complaints dropped almost to zero. The reason Larson
suggests that it all has to do with what he calls "social justice". If people
see others taking a short cut, they will find the wait unbearable. (48)
. Another aspect Larson studied was the observation
that people get more fed up if they are not told what is going on. (49)
. But even knowing how long we have to wait isn’t the
whole answer. We must also believe that everything is being done to minimize our
delay. Larson cites the example of two neighboring American banks. One was
highly computerized and served a customer, on average, every 30 seconds.
(50) . But because the tellers at the second bank looked
extremely busy, customers believed the service was faster and many transferred
their accounts to the slower bank. Ultimately, the latter had to introduce
time-wasting ways of appearing more dynamic. A So in the case of the
airport, it was preferable to delay everyone. B The other bank was less
automated and took twice as long. C When they finally arrived at the
baggage reclaim, the delay was then only two minutes. D His first
finding, which backs up earlier work at the US National Science Foundation, was
that the degree of annoyance was not directly related to the time. E
It’s unbearable for the airport to delay everyone. F Passengers
told that there will be a half-hour delay are less unhappy than those left
waiting even twenty minutes without an explanation.