isn’t enough to determine whether it’s wired correctly.
Why Do Most People Expect the Ground Hole to Be on the Bottom?
It’s mostly what we’re accustomed to seeing.
Once you’ve encountered hundreds—or thousands—of outlets with the grounding opening underneath, that arrangement starts to feel like the “correct” one.
So when you see this:
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your brain immediately goes:
“Something is wrong here.”
But when you see this:
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it feels normal simply because that’s the orientation you’ve learned to expect.
There isn’t necessarily a functional reason for the orientation we’re most familiar
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