poll

which direction would you go

 

Right is always right

 

On the right side there's nothing left and on the left side there's nothing right.

 

absolutely right, there is nothing wrong with going left

 

Left is for friends who do stuff together, right is for night and day

 

There's a design reason most people will pick right.
On the left, nothing is really visible from this angle, while the door automatically communicates that something is behind it, also, the stairs in the wall adds a bit of weight in that direction, plus, people naturally tend right.
The difference, in this case, won't be too big.

If you want more people to pick left, then I think the best thing to do is to actually make the room darker, and then put a light on the right side.
People are drawn to light when it's used like that, this would make far more people go left.
If you want people to head right, then put a door on the left side, and a light on the left.

Like this:


If you don't want the room to be darker, then just make the door wider.


Just swap whatever I'm doing if you want them to go the other direction.
You can also just remove the door if you want, idk, there's a bunch of ways to get people to go left, or right, not sure which you want.

 

if possible, i'd actually want to check left first since the lack of a door makes anything down that path immediately visible. i'd also assume that walking left is cheaper time-wise (the door on the right might be locked in some way). if it becomes clear that there's nothing of interest there, i could immediately double back and go right instead.

 

I think they are asking if you would walk down the right or the left first, not which you would look down first.
Obviously, almost everyone would look down the left hall, due to it being openly visible, then open the door, at least in his example.