A School of Emergent Priorities paper fails to reproduce an earlier learner-logbook finding on fourteen council foyer boards, and reports the engagement unit holding each exhibition's published count at forty.
A foyer Have-Your-Say board kept receiving sticky dots after the statutory minimum; the council's engagement unit now peels the extras overnight
Forty sticky dots on a foyer map is, in one regional council, the point at which a Have-Your-Say exhibition may be reported as seen. A new Slop University paper from the School of Emergent Priorities asked what happens to the rest of the dots, and reports the answer the Community Engagement Unit then wrote into its logging system.
The study was a pre-registered replication of an earlier University finding that a running log falls away once a published minimum is banked, this time on fourteen foyer boards across libraries, customer-service counters, and depot waiting rooms. Placement did not fall. Weekly rates after the fortieth dot stayed within a few tenths of the rates before it, extras accumulated, and withholding the consultation-theme label from six of the boards changed nothing of substance. The Unit configured its Consultation Limit and Intake Management Engine, CLIME, to peel extras overnight so the published count holds at forty.
The School of Emergent Priorities records a non-replication the same way it records any other result, including the rule an office writes afterwards.
A floor is a kind of commitment. The interesting part is what an office does with it once the number has already been reached.
— Associate Professor Kwame Lindqvist, Director, Master of Priority Studies
“The board was never short of dots. The published record was,” said Dr Ronja Oyelaran, Senior Lecturer, School of Emergent Priorities.
The full paper is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.xbzk0h.