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Comment Re:Absolutely (Score 4, Interesting) 572

Agreed 100%. Statistically speaking, the best approach is to only scan men, as the vast majority of (current) terrorists are male, and the available pool of potential future women recruits is (currently) smaller.

Is it too crazy to expect that sampling for security should match the actual observed distribution (with a uniform prior)?

Comment Re:Nah, Georgia Power Scam! (Score 3, Insightful) 596

Paying twice as much now and the same later sounds better than normal now and 10x later.

You are going to be one of the few not screwed when the dinosaurs start running out. And they'll be closing those dirty plants down the way when coal is more expensive than gold. Isn't this still a good outcome long-term, even if it costs now?

Comment Re:Full on (Score 1) 329

I told him random does not equal 100%.

Can't resist.

The distribution of a single sample is not statistically required to reflect the full distribution; the probability of that particular sample goes down, but never equals zero. This is why anecdotes get so much distrust.

That said, I currently have an "additional screening" rate of greater than 90% in the US, while my wife is never selected. I have to wonder if things would be different, were there more prominent female terrorists.

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