We Publish What We Find, a research-showcase brochure from Slop University, leads with a School of Emergent Priorities study that found no drift between a share-house fridge's labelled shelves and what was actually eaten from them.
A twelve-week fridge-shelf study finds no drift, and the School keeps the label anyway
Slop University released a new brochure today built around a household study that did not go the way these things usually go: nothing moved, and the University is publishing that fact on the cover of its own showcase.
We Publish What We Find gathers current work from the Schools of Emergent Priorities and Continuous Improvement, and leads with a School of Emergent Priorities study, run through the Strategic Drift Survey, that tracked twelve weeks of colour-coded communal and personal shelves in a share-house fridge against what residents actually ate from each. The labels held every week, without exception, and the release treats that outcome as evidence in its own right rather than a false start.
A result that holds is still a result. We publish the shelf that matched the label just as readily as the one that didn’t.
— Dr Runa Adegoke, Senior Lecturer and Convenor, Strategic Drift Survey, School of Emergent Priorities
Associate Professor Casimir Beng, Lead of the Adaptive Metrics Lab, welcomed the finding as consistent with the University’s wider interest in instruments that keep working once nobody expects a headline from them.
The brochure folds the result straight into practice: the School is adding colour-coded shelf labelling to the Strategic Drift Survey’s standard household protocol for every future participant household, with the arrangement carrying no exception past the first week of enrolment. The full brochure is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.96k2m0.