{"id":4016,"date":"2009-08-25T11:20:41","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T11:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/08\/25\/obsessive-compulsive-poll-ligh\/"},"modified":"2009-08-25T11:20:41","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T11:20:41","slug":"obsessive-compulsive-poll-ligh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/08\/25\/obsessive-compulsive-poll-ligh\/","title":{"rendered":"Obsessive-Compulsive Poll: Light Switches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-c8c91722d6cafe899905341ba9df2f3c-light-switches.jpg\" alt=\"i-c8c91722d6cafe899905341ba9df2f3c-light-switches.jpg\" \/>I&#8217;m doing better today, but still a little wobbly, and trying to conserve my energy for the Bruce Springsteen concert tonight. Thus, a poll:<\/p>\n<p>Imagine you have a light switch box containing multiple switches, like to one at right. These switches control lights in adjoining areas of the house&#8211; say, the living room, and the light on the stairs up to the bedrooms. At least one of these switches is part of a pair&#8211; say, there&#8217;s another switch at the top of the stairs controlling that light.<\/p>\n<p>The question is this: when you go to bed at night, turning off all the lights, what should the position of the adjacent switches be?<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/1915391.js\"><\/script><noscript><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/answers.polldaddy.com\/poll\/1915391\/\">When all the lights are off, the switches should be:<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\">(<a href=\"http:\/\/answers.polldaddy.com\">opinion<\/a>)<\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This poll has nothing at all to do with my own weird compulsions. Nope. Nothing whatsoever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m doing better today, but still a little wobbly, and trying to conserve my energy for the Bruce Springsteen concert tonight. Thus, a poll: Imagine you have a light switch box containing multiple switches, like to one at right. These switches control lights in adjoining areas of the house&#8211; say, the living room, and the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/08\/25\/obsessive-compulsive-poll-ligh\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obsessive-Compulsive Poll: Light Switches<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,70,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-psychology","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}