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Partly inspired by a linguistic misunderstanding between me and bob...

Poll #3446

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 39

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When you turn a (correctly-functioning) refrigerator up, it gets:

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warmer
4 (10.5%)

colder
31 (81.6%)

I don't know
3 (7.9%)

Acceptable abbreviations for "refrigerator" are:

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fridge
38 (97.4%)

fridg
1 (2.6%)

frig
0 (0.0%)

refridge
1 (2.6%)

refridg
0 (0.0%)

refrig
1 (2.6%)

something else
2 (5.1%)

none of the above
0 (0.0%)

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From:

bob

i was confusing myself while trying to decide what to say as well.

From:

kake

At least we seem to agree now!

From:

juliet

I always struggle with the meaning of the dial inside a fridge. I *think* I have now established that higher = colder but I usually have to set it & then come back & check in a couple of hrs.

From:

kake

It's always tricky trying to figure out how to set ours, because things at the back always freeze regardless :(

From:

lnr

I struggle, even though ours is marked with a blue bar of increasing width, so as it gets bigger it's indicating colder. You'd think that would be pretty obvious.

From:

ajnabieh

Mine is helpfully labeled: "5 - Coldest."

From:

kake

How very sensible! Time to get the Sharpie out, I think.

From:

lnr

While I vote for colder I note it *could* mean either, depending on whether the fridge has a control to turn up the *power* or turn up the *temperature*. Ours has a knob that gets colder as you rotate it clockwise, which is the usual "up" direction.

From:

kake

Ours is just marked with plain numbers (up to 5, I think). I did wonder if some of the confusion was due to thinking that the numbers on the dial were degrees Centigrade, but apparently it wasn't.

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