> In a significant minority of cases, people who weren't in on the experiment found the sharp iron objects and removed them, even when there was no obvious reason to do so.
"Here is a sharp object in an unexpected location" is generally reason enough for removing it, especially in any household with children or pets. Even if the sharp thing is unlikely to be encountered, without a reason to leave it there, many people will remove sharps just so nobody accidentally gets hurt by it later.
This applies to both neat and messy households; neat households don't like the irregularity, and messy households (like mine) put effort into noticing the difference between "clutter; can be ignored" and "potentially dangerous clutter; make sure this won't hurt someone who doesn't notice it among the other clutter."
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Date: 2018-05-19 12:08 am (UTC)"Here is a sharp object in an unexpected location" is generally reason enough for removing it, especially in any household with children or pets. Even if the sharp thing is unlikely to be encountered, without a reason to leave it there, many people will remove sharps just so nobody accidentally gets hurt by it later.
This applies to both neat and messy households; neat households don't like the irregularity, and messy households (like mine) put effort into noticing the difference between "clutter; can be ignored" and "potentially dangerous clutter; make sure this won't hurt someone who doesn't notice it among the other clutter."