RE: Is there a study on reading warnings, notes?

["Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com>]

This thread reminds me of a piece of humor that seems relevant to this
issue -- a cartoon that I was wondering if anyone else here has seen. In
one sequence, someone is getting ready to throw a hand grenade at an
adversary. He reads the step-by-step instructions for grasping the pin,
pulling the pin, and throwing the grenade, and carries out each
operation as he comes to it -- but he reads rather slowly. Then, at the
END of the instructions, he reads, with terror, the warning that, "You
should be aware that you have only ten seconds to perform this
operation." Of course, BOOM!

A nice example of a warning that does no good because of its poor
placement. 
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