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Ambiguous Visual Controls: Never stay in rooms 601-617

By Jon Miller Updated on May 24th, 2017

This ambiguous visual control creates more doubts than assurances.

What is the message here?
Do some people prefer and wish to be directed to the unclean rooms?
Room 621 was in fact quite nice.

Jon Miller

Jon has dedicated his 25+ year career to the field of kaizen, continuous improvement, and lean management. Jon spent the first eighteen years of his life in Japan, then graduated from McGill University with a bachelor’s in linguistics.

Chris Hardisty
April 11, 2012 - 6:19 pm
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A great spot and a good example of ambiguous visual controls.
I am just glad you weren’t in room 618!
John Hunter
April 13, 2012 - 10:56 pm
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Here is another ambiguous sign (at least to physicists, I am not sure if others are confused).
http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume7/v7i6/doubleslit.html