A new Slop University research poster finds a suburban pigeon-racing club's attendance quadrant predicts transporter-crate access perfectly and race speed almost not at all.
A pigeon-racing club's entered-versus-returned board now decides who rides the transporter trailer, whatever a loft's actual race speed.
Verified Active lofts held every guaranteed seat on the transporter trailer across an entire premiership season. So did the slower ones among them: a new School of Continuous Improvement research poster, led by Dr Marit Osayande with Associate Professor Casimir Beng, finds a suburban pigeon-racing club’s four-cell attendance quadrant tracks board activity with total reliability and race speed with almost none.
The team followed fourteen suburban clubs’ weekly loft boards across a full eighteen-round season, matching each board’s entered-and-returned status against official race results and the clubs’ own transporter manifests. Verified Active lofts, sorted by board attendance alone, took every crate seat going; lofts sorted into the board’s lower cells took none, whatever their times on the course.
The quadrant was never wrong about who showed up. It just isn’t the same question as who’s fast, and the committee is looking at that now.
— Dr Marit Osayande, Lecturer and Convenor, Living Dashboard
“We’re grateful to the fourteen clubs that let us photograph their boards every week without asking why,” said Associate Professor Casimir Beng, Lead of the Adaptive Metrics Lab. “A board that reliable deserved a proper look.”
The School treats the result as confirmation that its own instruments deserve at least as much scrutiny as anyone else’s, and notes that a minimum-seats floor for the board’s lowest cell is now before the clubs’ own committees. The full poster is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.yl67qc.