{"id":2533,"date":"2013-06-03T20:46:58","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T03:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/?p=2533"},"modified":"2013-06-03T20:46:58","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T03:46:58","slug":"design-and-sabotage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/?p=2533","title":{"rendered":"Design and Sabotage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the temperature control from my fridge:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/d20120603_0003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2534\" alt=\"d20120603_0003\" src=\"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/d20120603_0003.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/d20120603_0003.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/d20120603_0003-320x157.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Which way makes it colder inside? \u00a0Do &#8220;min&#8221; and &#8220;max&#8221; refer to temperature or to the amount of work done to reduce the temperature?<\/p>\n<p>Also note how the numbers on the dial increase in the opposite direction to the min\/max labels. \u00a0All in all, a well-designed control if your goal is to confuse people and sabotage their food.<\/p>\n<p>For a while I&#8217;ve been having trouble with food in my fridge freezing, and I decided to do something about it &#8211; only I found I&#8217;m not sure what to do. \u00a0Knowing engineers, my guess is that 9 is coldest, but it really should be warmest &#8211; or the dial should just be labelled &#8220;colder&#8221; and &#8220;warmer&#8221; instead of using numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The user manual may or may not reveal the answer, but I don&#8217;t have it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the temperature control from my fridge: &nbsp; Which way makes it colder inside? \u00a0Do &#8220;min&#8221; and &#8220;max&#8221; refer to temperature or to the amount of work done to reduce the temperature? Also note how the numbers on the dial increase in the opposite direction to the min\/max labels. \u00a0All in all, a well-designed control [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-foodreviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2533"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2538,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions\/2538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}