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I was talking with someone on Saturday. He had gone to the EAA Fly-in (Experimental Aircraft Association) in Oshkosh, WI. I've always kinda wanted to go to this, so I was interested in hearing about it, and it would give us something to talk about for a little bit. We didn't talk for too long, though. He said that the organizers expected smaller crowds than usual, and they got larger crowds than usual. So the wait for the shuttle buses was really long.
He had a complaint about this. They had gotten some college students to come up with the best routes for the buses. Waits for the shuttles were longer than ever. "Why didn't they just ask the people who drive the buses every year?"
A common complaint. Why bother with experts, when we could just use common sense?
Well, I have questions. Since they decided to have these students solve the problem, there must have been a problem, right? So how much of the traffic snarls were caused by this plan, and how much were caused by the larger-than-usual crowds? Would it have been ever worse if they'd stuck to the old plan? How much of the veteran drivers' complaints were simply because the plan was new? Could it have been that the new plan was based on a certain number of travelers, and the larger number overwhelmed the plan, where the old plan would have functioned relatively better with the larger number?
I realize the experts are often lacking information, which leads to problems, but the same is true of the people doing the work. The difference is that the people doing the work are usually happy with doing it the way they've always done it.
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He had a complaint about this. They had gotten some college students to come up with the best routes for the buses. Waits for the shuttles were longer than ever. "Why didn't they just ask the people who drive the buses every year?"
A common complaint. Why bother with experts, when we could just use common sense?
Well, I have questions. Since they decided to have these students solve the problem, there must have been a problem, right? So how much of the traffic snarls were caused by this plan, and how much were caused by the larger-than-usual crowds? Would it have been ever worse if they'd stuck to the old plan? How much of the veteran drivers' complaints were simply because the plan was new? Could it have been that the new plan was based on a certain number of travelers, and the larger number overwhelmed the plan, where the old plan would have functioned relatively better with the larger number?
I realize the experts are often lacking information, which leads to problems, but the same is true of the people doing the work. The difference is that the people doing the work are usually happy with doing it the way they've always done it.
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Date: 2021-08-04 10:51 pm (UTC)From: