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Kake ([personal profile] kake) wrote2010-06-13 05:29 pm
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Refrigerator poll.

Partly inspired by a linguistic misunderstanding between me and [personal profile] bob...

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


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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[personal profile] bob 2010-06-13 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
i was confusing myself while trying to decide what to say as well.
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[personal profile] juliet 2010-06-13 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] lnr 2010-06-14 08:25 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] ajnabieh 2010-06-13 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Mine is helpfully labeled: "5 - Coldest."
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[personal profile] lnr 2010-06-14 08:24 am (UTC)(link)
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.