A new Slop University paper follows 316 households sharing a streaming account for eleven months and finds that how quickly they answer its "this is your home" prompt predicts nothing about whether the account is later flagged for further verification.
Response speed across 316 households leaves later verification flags unchanged, an eleven-month Slop University panel finds
Ask a share house who taps “yes, this is home” on the family streaming account, and you’ll get a shrug: whoever’s holding the remote. A new Slop University paper asked whether that shrug matters to the account itself, tracking 316 such households for eleven months to find out.
Associate Professor Casimir Beng, Lead of the Adaptive Metrics Lab, worked with Lecturer and Convenor Dr Ingeborg Nwachukwu and Lecturer Dr Solveig Adeyemi, all of the School of Continuous Improvement, to sort each household by how fast it answered its account’s “is this your home” check, then watched for eleven months to see which were later flagged for further verification. Households that answered within the hour and households that never answered at all ended up flagged at close to the same rate.
We didn’t set out to prove a prompt useless. We set out to see what it actually measures, and the honest answer is: less than everyone assumed, including us.
— Associate Professor Casimir Beng, Lead, Adaptive Metrics Lab, School of Continuous Improvement
“A null result doesn’t feel like news,” said Dr Nwachukwu, who convenes the School’s Capability Sprints program. “It just feels like the end of an assumption nobody had actually tested until now.”
The panel was recruited through the Adaptive Metrics Lab’s household-research registry and followed for eleven months, timing each household’s response to its home-confirmation check against whatever happened to the account afterwards. Neither response speed nor a prior flag on a household’s record moved the odds of a new one.
The University counts a clean null as evidence its verification research asks the right question about a household’s account, not one it’s dodging.
The full paper is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.osr64g.