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Quarterly empty-shop counts say nothing about how long shops stay empty

A new Slop University paper walks 41 shopping strips every month for 30 months and finds the vacancy rate that ranks them for renewal funding is accurate as a rate and carries no information about the persistence the funding rule is written about.
Paper

Most council heritage listings rest on a weighting choice, not the scores

A new Slop University paper recomputes one council heritage study's listing recommendations across every weighting its own published methodology admits, and finds fewer than half of them settled by the criterion scores.
Poster

Counted children fall after a school crossing loses its supervisor

A new Slop University research poster observes 39 supervised school crossings either side of a warrant decision and finds the count that authorised each withdrawal falls further once the supervisor is gone.
Poster

Volunteer meal rounds lose their long doorstep visits, and no measure shows it

A new Slop University research poster finds that recipients and volunteer drivers describe the doorstep visit differently, and that consolidating a delivery round removes its longest encounters while the median dwell barely moves.
Brochure

University makes the four hour arrival window its research programme

Slop University has published a research-showcase brochure setting out its programme on the promised arrival window, and the morning it commits on the other side.
Poster

Extra roadside fire danger signs add nothing to what drivers recall

A new Slop University research poster tests what drivers can state about the day's fire danger rating shortly after passing a roadside sign, and finds recall flat above the first sign on a route while the district's awareness indicator keeps climbing.
Poster

Test-and-tag stickers carry no signal about an appliance's condition

A new Slop University research poster bench-tests 386 appliances across 61 council community facilities and finds the failure rate almost identical whether or not the appliance carries a current test-and-tag sticker.
Paper

Beehive register clears its accuracy threshold and misses the fringe

A new Slop University paper audits a state beehive register against three independent enumerations of keeping sites, finding it close to complete in the suburbs and substantially thinner on the fringe a response radius would most need described.
Poster

Council volunteer measure rises as the volunteer base narrows

A new Slop University research poster decomposes a council participation indicator across nine volunteer-run weekly timed runs and finds the reported count rising 38.1 per cent while the number of distinct people supplying it falls 35.9 per cent.
Paper

Ferry crossings that publish a timetable keep drivers waiting longer

A new Slop University paper observes six cable-ferry crossings over 72 days and finds that the three publishing a timetable report punctuality above target while holding waiting vehicles almost four minutes longer.
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Inspection tablet's own clock shows items ticked five at a time

A new Slop University paper reports eleven months of a tablet inspection instrument the University built, and finds that the submission gate guaranteeing complete records is also what produces bursts of item states entered faster than any check could take.
Poster

Music exam paperwork outweighs the playing by nearly nineteen to one

A new Slop University research poster times everything that happens around a graded music examination and finds the funding return consumes more effort than the examination and the examiner's report combined.