The Floor
Is it acceptable to check your phone at a dinner table?
Suggested by a player, opened on Tuesday, and already the most divided thing on the floor.
Concluded from · Assessed from the stance that attention is the thing being shared at a table.
Closes at 1,500 answers
1,161 people have taken a position.
Take a position and it opens — to you now, and to everybody when this closes.
The split is covered until you have taken a position, because on a question like this the room is not evidence about the world — it is what is being measured, and a number shown first would only tell you what the normal answer is. It opens to everybody when this closes, answered or not.
What people are weighing
Take a position to mark what weighed with you
- A glance costs three seconds and breaks nothingA glance is fine
- One phone on the table lowers what everybody disclosesNever
- The rule is different at home and in a restaurant
What settles this, and when it closes
This one has no answer. It has a room. Nothing in the world settles it — so when it closes, the floor says what it concludes, from a stated stance.
Counting closes as soon as 1,500 people have answered.
What people said · 3
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Take a position above to add your view. You can read everyone else’s now.
Paul E.@paul_e· 9 Sept
The table is the only twenty minutes in the day when everybody agreed to be in the same place. That is the whole point of it.
Ana S.@ana_s· 9 Sept
The phone does not have to ring. Face down on the cloth is enough to change what people are willing to say, and we all know it.
Oliver K.@oliver_k· 10 Sept
This is a rule people apply to their children and not to themselves. If the call is the hospital you take it, and everybody agrees instantly.
