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How to jump queue fury? If you find yourself waiting in a long queue at an airport or bus terminus this holiday, will you try to
How to jump queue fury? If you find yourself waiting in a long queue at an airport or bus terminus this holiday, will you try to
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2010-06-30
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How to jump queue fury? 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. 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. 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. When they finally arrived at the baggage reclaim, the delay was then only two minutes. 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. So in the case of the airport, it was preferable to delay everyone.
Another aspect Larson studied was the observation that people get more fed up if they are not told what is going on. Passengers told that there will be a half-hour delay are less unhappy than those left waiting even twenty minutes without an explanation.
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 bands. One was highly computerized and served a customer, on average, every 30 seconds. The other band was less automated and took twice as long. But because the tellers at the second band looking 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.
The passage implies that ______.
选项
A、people won’t feel angry if they are informed of everything
B、it’s unbearable for the airport to delay everyone
C、people tend to trust their eyes rather than their brains
D、passengers should be encouraged to carry hand baggage
答案
C
解析
people tend to trust their eyes rather than their brains意思是:“人们倾向于相信自己的眼睛而不愿意相信自己的头脑”,或者说“人们往往倾向于注重事情的表面现象,而不仔细动脑去思考其反映的本质”。这是作者对本文反映的问题的一个分析和归纳,文章指出第一家银行由于实现了高度的计算机化办公,为每位客户服务的平均时间仅是30秒,效率非常高,员工则显得没那么忙碌,而另外一家银行因为没有采用计算机系统,服务效率较低,员工也显得异常忙碌。然而顾客则误认为忙碌代表高效,
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