Poll of the Day > A thermostat has a switch that can be set to Summer or Winter.

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You want to make it colder in the room. What do you turn the switch to?

Show your work.

EDIT: Also, this is not intended to be a trick question, so don't go all Da Vinci code on me. Just straight up, what would you do.
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change it to summer cause, well, that's how those things usually work.

summer mode would try to cool down the house thinking it's warm outside.
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You play it in tabletop mode

Summer mode means A/C is on.
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The bigger question, is that 'is that a snowflake or a sun?'...
Hence does snowflake mean make it cold, or it is cold.....

D:
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Summer means you would want it to be colder, and winter means you would want it to be warmer...
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Does it mean "HEY ITS SUMMER PICK SUMMER"

or

"HEY ITS COLD THE SUMMER SETTING TURNS THE HEAT ON"

fuck if i know, but after i choose a setting ill know im a minute

summer setting is at 72, winter setting is 68.
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I'd replace the thermostat with one without stupid options like that.
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Never, ever summer. I'd risk starvation during a nuclear winter just to have the sun blocked out.
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i realized right after i voted winter
fuuuuuuuuuuuck
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I can't touch the termostat, i don't want my dad visiting.
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I would choose Summer because I would think that it's a type of mode for the thermostat. Kind of like the alarm clocks that can track daylight savings time. And usually in summer it is super hot so you want the thermostat to pick up on the hotness.
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For those who picked "Summer" to make it colder, why? I see some of you post the thinking you use "Summer", as in it feels like summer, so you want it to be cooler.

But every thermostat without this weird dial works differently. Think of the one in your home...you turn it to "cool" to make it colder, and "heat" or "heat on" on to make it warmer. So why switch the logic when the words "Summer" and "Winter" are used? Is it just the wording?
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argonautweakend posted...

Does it mean "HEY ITS SUMMER PICK SUMMER"

or

"HEY ITS COLD THE SUMMER SETTING TURNS THE HEAT ON"

fuck if i know, but after i choose a setting ill know im a minute

Well, that's what this topic is about. A thermostat with this labeling is stupid, because there's no clear right and wrong answer. If you want it colder, switching it to "Winter" makes sense, because you want it to feel like winter, i.e., colder. Equally, the thinking could be "It already feels like winter in here, I want it to be warmer", so you switch it to winter.

In a vacuum, either has a valid case for being right. That said, as explained above, normal thermostats work by "Cool"=cooler, "Heat"=warmer. And yet, the majority in the topic picked "Summer", despite it being less logical based on how "normal" thermostats work.

Why?
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Because I think of it as a mode/setting. I don't know if this is the best explanation but I thought of it like the rear view mirror of a car that is adjustable for either Day or Night driving.

http://www.kiopman.com/images/books/4/3/page.h41.jpg

Plus, I also found this picture lol:
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1682650412_16.jpg
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CyborgSage00x0 posted...

For those who picked "Summer" to make it colder, why? I see some of you post the thinking you use "Summer", as in it feels like summer, so you want it to be cooler.

But every thermostat without this weird dial works differently. Think of the one in your home...you turn it to "cool" to make it colder, and "heat" or "heat on" on to make it warmer. So why switch the logic when the words "Summer" and "Winter" are used? Is it just the wording?

"Cool" is a temperature reference. No translation needed.
"Summer" is a time period in which thermostats are set to cool things down. That translates into summer=cool.

It being hot outside during summer is irrelevant. We aren't talking about the summer air, we're talking about a summer thermostat.
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Lightning Bolt posted...

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

For those who picked "Summer" to make it colder, why? I see some of you post the thinking you use "Summer", as in it feels like summer, so you want it to be cooler.

But every thermostat without this weird dial works differently. Think of the one in your home...you turn it to "cool" to make it colder, and "heat" or "heat on" on to make it warmer. So why switch the logic when the words "Summer" and "Winter" are used? Is it just the wording?

"Cool" is a temperature reference. No translation needed.
"Summer" is a time period in which thermostats are set to cool things down. That translates into summer=cool.

It being hot outside during summer is irrelevant. We aren't talking about the summer air, we're talking about a summer thermostat.

This. If your car had "day" and "night" switches for the lights, you would switch to night at night. Not day, because day is bright and I want it to be bright.
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