The Queue

You just know where to stand, and wait for your turn.

The rest of this is the good half.

Erlang’s arithmetic, the result that says being fair costs nothing, what computers decided about starvation, and the day the front of the line went on sale. Leave an email and it opens, and you get one Data Drop a week.

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Method. Wait times come from the open datasets published by touringplans.com, covering twelve Walt Disney World attractions from 2013 onward: 1,905,495 observations in total, of which 1,758,656 are posted times taken off the sign and 26,660 are actual waits measured by a person standing in the line with a stopwatch. To compare the two we matched every measured wait to the posted number displayed at that attraction within ten minutes of it, giving 25,906 pairs. Historical claims are sourced in the text. Figures were drawn for this piece.

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