I'm convinced that the standard operating procedure that puts the freezer on the top in common refrigerators is a carry over from the block-of-ice ice box days. Since the advent of modern refrigeration, it should have been moved to the bottom by default.
My arguments:
1) The only good reasons I can think of for preferring a freezer-on-top are:
a) better common access to children and vertically challenged
b) need access to the freezer much more often than normal fridge
and I doubt those are the overwhelming majority use cases.
2) Because it's the standard for cheapy fridges, they are commonly found provided in the typical apartment, rented by people such as me who would rather not have to stoop the majority for the time the fridge is accessed when it is completely unnecessary.
It should stay an option, but not be the default.
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