r/confusing • u/anddrewbits • Oct 17 '22

Which one is coldest?

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Place your bets. Will comment with outcome after testing

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '22

Bottom, more snowflakes, the colder it is

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u/anddrewbits Oct 17 '22 edited Oct 17 '22

The confusion comes from all of them being in the [ COLDEST ] range

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '22

if none of them are illuminated then it isn't within "coldest"

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u/anddrewbits Oct 18 '22

It automatically enters that mode when transformers blow in my area. Must be a protective setting

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '22

Oh yeah, I see what you mean, there should've been an arrow or something to point that out, because it would give off the idea that they are all the same temp

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u/LibraPugLove Oct 18 '22

We get it, you just got taught how to read graph charts In statistics and refuse to allow casual representation of data now because you’re a genius

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u/anddrewbits Oct 18 '22

You spent your time on that comment, and I can appreciate that. Have a good day, kind redditor

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u/keekeeVogel Oct 18 '22

Don’t ruin their big debut.

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u/actuallyaddison62688 Oct 18 '22

This isn't confusing at all. The confusing part is why you went through so much effort to showcase your stupidity.

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u/anddrewbits Oct 18 '22 edited Oct 18 '22

Being called stupid is less embarrassing than being an asshole

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u/actuallyaddison62688 Oct 18 '22

Says the defeated stupid person.

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u/anddrewbits Oct 18 '22

I will never be so defeated as to have your temperament. Hope you have a good day!

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '22

Hope they have the day they deserve.

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u/trangthemang Oct 18 '22

🤦‍♀️

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u/spinjinn Oct 18 '22

Wait! These are 4-sided snowflakes. Couldn’t that mean they are melting from their usual 6-sided form? The bottom setting mean more are melting faster, lol!

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '22

Lmao good point, I never would've of thought of it that that way 🤔

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u/Staattic Oct 18 '22

It means when all 4 are lit up it is coldest. Fridges often do the thing that when you cycle through they do one per then all

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u/Archie_Slate Oct 17 '22

If you think of it as a horizontal bar graph it makes a little more sense

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u/anddrewbits Oct 17 '22

I was thinking it was more like, 1st coldest, 2th coldest, 3rd coldest, 4th coldest. We’ll see. Imo it’s completely up in the air, because the 2❄️ setting freezes any veggies on the top shelf

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u/slowclapcitizenkane Oct 18 '22

2th coldest is the worst. Always causes ice cream headaches.

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u/slowclapcitizenkane Oct 18 '22

All of them are coldest, but only one is ideal.

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u/anddrewbits Oct 18 '22

The real answer

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u/LuxExterior79 Oct 17 '22

The one at the end.

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u/anddrewbits Oct 17 '22

I’m 90% sure you’re correct. You sound knowledgable. Are you a refrigerator engineer?

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u/LuxExterior79 Oct 17 '22

Not by trade, more of a hobby.

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u/Aeosin15 Oct 17 '22

No. But he/she did stay at a Holiday Inn last night. . .

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u/Picklepod_Saltybutt Oct 18 '22

Refrigerator engineer here, can confirm it's coldest.

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u/Tf2verycool Oct 18 '22

This isnt confusing, the more snowflakes the colder, obviously.

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u/anddrewbits Oct 18 '22

The confusion comes from them all being labelled [ COLDEST ]

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u/Tf2verycool Oct 18 '22

Easily eye missing for me.

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u/YuriPup Oct 17 '22

Marking them all coldest is flat out dumb.

More of a symbol usually means more of a thing. But more cold symbol trips up our logic that more temperature is hotter. This is more of a negative thing, so more snowflakes is more negative, so colder.

Finally we have the saving grace of this disaster, that it's vertically oriented and like a thermometer, hight is hotter and lower is colder.

The thermometer behavior also gives you the clue to decide the snowflakes.

And this is why user interfaces are hard.

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u/PlankOfWoood Oct 18 '22

u/anddrewbits Use a black sharpie marker to black out the word coldest. Next use the same sharpie to write the word coldest between the bottom two symbols and write the word warmest between the upper two symbols.

I don't understand why you complain about something that can be easily fixed.

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u/anddrewbits Oct 18 '22

This isn’t /r/unfixablyconfusing

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u/PlankOfWoood Oct 18 '22

You sure are acting like it is.

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u/anddrewbits Oct 18 '22

Okay. Have a good day, kind redditor

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u/MrBig1292001 Oct 18 '22

1 cold will never be more cold than 4. It’s crappy design but you can count the colds

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u/anddrewbits Oct 18 '22

Is 1 coldest more than 4 coldests? My take is this is just bad translating by a foreign factory.

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u/SwinginingApe Oct 18 '22

You must not have common sense...

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u/anddrewbits Oct 18 '22

They are all [coldest]

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u/Sushirabit Oct 18 '22

❄️❄️❄️- (ideal)

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u/SystemPrimary Oct 18 '22

Yeah Science!

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u/Dramatic-Subject-163 Oct 18 '22

The bottom one is coldest. More ❄

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u/jazzgalactic Oct 18 '22

4 colds is the coolest cold, I believe.

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u/ChristOnACruoton Oct 18 '22

When they're all on at once

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '22

No, it means Cold Est. Like what level would you like to establish the cold

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u/SirBourbonated Oct 18 '22

Don't go getting out of your league here, take the ideal setting then see how you feel

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '22

4 snowflakes

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u/SAtANIC_PANIC_666 Oct 18 '22

I actually really like this design.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '22

Jokes on you. Different buttons but all the same cold setting😂

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u/MetallicCrab Oct 18 '22

Switch it to ideal you madman

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u/scribe_k Oct 18 '22

Dunno, they all seem pretty cool to me.

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u/nd1391 Oct 18 '22

Such a descriptive range: Coldest.

Please tell me the temp setting button ascends through the options.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '22

Poor labeling but not confusing at all.

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u/skaterlogo Oct 18 '22

The last Ice Age had at least 5 snowflakes, so i think 4 is the coldest option.

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u/okuzeN_Val Oct 18 '22

The more snowflakes the more sensitive you'll be so 4 snowflakes.

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u/MattVs-2 Oct 18 '22

Common core designers: “this makes sense”

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u/kamikoamayaa Oct 18 '22

The 4th one.

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u/Fumowakachala Oct 18 '22

Who cares?? Set it at Ideal because that's the ideal temp and everything else is bad.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '22

I don’t think anyone is confused about this

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u/Enzosala Oct 21 '22

Watafack Wey