Hey there everybody.
I have not forgotten about this blog… its just been really quiet in the tech world recently – i think everyone is recovering from the one-two punch of CES followed by Macworld.
So here is today’s brief post – a link to an older article explaining how the BioHazard symbol came to be:
”We tested the sample symbols across the country — the marketing department
had survey groups to test different labels for Dow products. There were half
a
dozen of our original symbols in this survey of 24 different symbols. The
rest
were recognizable, like the peanut man for Planter’s peanuts, the
Texaco star,
the Shell Oil symbol, the Red Cross and the swastika. They were
asked to look at
them and then asked to guess at what each one meant. The
biohazard symbol got
the fewest guesses. Then we went back one week later to
the same set of people
and the same set of symbols, plus 36 more common
ones, and asked them which of
these did they remember the best. And they
picked out the biohazard symbol.
The Full article can be read after the link.
http://www.hms.harvard.edu/orsp/coms/BiosafetyResources/History-of-Biohazard-Symbol.htm
Have a nice day, and stay tuned for more fun!
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