Directions for interpreting emergency directions

Chapter 4: Cognitive advantages (aka no other theory is as powerful)
Corfu, August 6, 2017. Image credit: RC.

Emergency instruction aboard a ferry-boat. One example among hundreds. Roberto in another of his paranoid or just over-cautious moments: “I always carefully study them as soon as I board a new ship. The last thing I want is to have to read them in an emergency: people screaming, commotion, family to take care of, immediate danger, decisions to be made quickly. But what am I supposed to make of this instruction?”

Goffredo cannot help suggesting Roberto to stop complaining and consider what is like to work in a campus where emergency directions sign are like this:

NYU Abu Dhabi Campus. Image credit: GP.
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