While avoiding another human or obstacle on the street, you go right or left? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 9 months ago by andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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What it may correlate to?

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[-] GreyShuck@feddit.uk 5 points 9 months ago

For me, at least, it correlates to the direction that provides the widest/least obstructed/most visibly clear/least disruptive/least hazardous direction to give onward travel. Clearly the direction that that boils down to varies according to the individual situation.

I don't recall being alone with a single central obstruction in the middle of an otherwise deserted and symmetrical street with no other influencing factors enough times to have noted any innate bias on my part.

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