Corridor Politics

Poll #8038 Side of the Corridor

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Walking on the road

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Same side as you drive
1 (6.7%)

Other side as you drive
14 (93.3%)

Other side as you drive (now I come to think of it, but had forgotten before)
0 (0.0%)

Don't care
0 (0.0%)

Walking on the pavement

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Same side as you drive
4 (25.0%)

Other side to you drive
0 (0.0%)

Always left, regardless of driving
0 (0.0%)

Always right, regardless of driving
1 (6.2%)

Don't care
11 (68.8%)

Walking in a corridor

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Same side as you drive
5 (31.2%)

Other side to you drive
0 (0.0%)

Always left, regardless of driving
3 (18.8%)

Always right, regardless of driving
2 (12.5%)

Don't care
6 (37.5%)

If you put up "stand on the left/right" signs on elevators, should they be

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Same side as you'd walk in a corridor
5 (29.4%)

Other side as you'd walk in a corridor
2 (11.8%)

Same as London, regardless
6 (35.3%)

Other
4 (23.5%)

Clarifications

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Corridor Politics

A little while back I was myself walking down a corridor and seeing someone coming the other way. We both moved to one side. Which side did I move to? Left? Right? The side I wanted to end up on? No, I seemed to move to the side I _didn't) want to end up on.

At the time, I assumed it was an overabundance of diffidence: that I was overcompensating in instinctively letting the other person pass, assuming that whatever was less convenient for me would be more helpful for them, when in fact it would be equally likely the other way round.

But now, I don't think that is it after all. It seems my natural tragectory is to curve away from a turning I want to in order to approach it more head on (either because it's easier to turn a corner like that, or just out of a sense of neatness), so being on the "wrong" side of the corridor is almost closer to the ideal path than the "right" one?