Repetition of rare events could reduce screening mistakes by security

Monday, November 4, 2013 - 21:30 in Psychology & Sociology

The failure to detect infrequent, but obvious security threats at airport screenings and other checkpoints may have less to do with incompetence or poor training than a human tendency to overlook rare events. But a researcher suggests guards could improve their detection rates the same way adults learn vocabulary words -- through repetition.

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