aardvark179 (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} aardvark179) wrote,@ 2008-05-11 09:32:00 |
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Estimation is a strange thing.
So this year the folk festival has a queuing system for the ticket booking system. Having slightly miss timed getting my coffee I didn't get in the queue till just after nine and was told there were two and a half thousand or so people in front of me and I should expect a wait of thirty to sixty minutes. Once the queue had got down to about two thousand or so the estimate was ten to thirty minutes, five to ten minutes came shortly afterwards and it's been imminent for the last five minutes with a thousand people still in the queue.
I can only the assume the time estimate is there to scare off people early, and then keep anybody who isn't scared off really quickly hanging on desperately.
Edit: On the bright side the whole thing seemed to work nice and smoothly this year, which has to be an improvement over previous years.
So this year the folk festival has a queuing system for the ticket booking system. Having slightly miss timed getting my coffee I didn't get in the queue till just after nine and was told there were two and a half thousand or so people in front of me and I should expect a wait of thirty to sixty minutes. Once the queue had got down to about two thousand or so the estimate was ten to thirty minutes, five to ten minutes came shortly afterwards and it's been imminent for the last five minutes with a thousand people still in the queue.
I can only the assume the time estimate is there to scare off people early, and then keep anybody who isn't scared off really quickly hanging on desperately.
Edit: On the bright side the whole thing seemed to work nice and smoothly this year, which has to be an improvement over previous years.
