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Week 3 Quiz

Checking whether this week's elevator power-dynamics reading landed.

Week 3

Three questions on the elevator as a closed, high-density system.

1. What four properties does the lecture say make the elevator such a rigid etiquette system?

Fixed capacity, fixed exits, short duration, high density
Loud, dark, slow, crowded
Public, free, automated, silent
Old, mechanical, shared, timed

2. In this week's Bad manner / Good manner pair, what is the actual cost comparison being made?

A few shared seconds for everyone already inside, versus the full wait for the next car carried alone by the latecomer
The cost of pressing a button versus not pressing it
Nothing — both options cost the same
The building's electricity bill for running the elevator

3. According to the lecture, when is an elevator's etiquette actually settled?

Silently, in the first two seconds, by people who never discuss it
By a posted sign inside the car
Only after someone complains to building management
By whoever pressed the call button first

4. Why does holding the close-door button on someone jogging toward the lift count as deniable, in the course's sense?

It's always possible to claim you simply didn't see them — the act can be waved off as an accident even when it wasn't one
Elevator doors are legally required to close on a fixed timer
No security camera can see inside the car
Deniability doesn't apply inside an elevator

5. A passenger reaches past you to press a floor without asking. Is this the isolated act, or the aftermath, in the method's terms?

The isolated act — the aftermath is however the car reacts to it next
The aftermath — pressing a button is never an isolated act
Neither — the method doesn't apply to button presses
Both at once, by definition

Related

Week 3: Socio-Political Dynamics of Confinement in Vertical Transit
Week 3 Tutorial: Watching the Panel and the Door

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