A new Slop University brochure, Towards a Line Everyone Can Stand Under, reports that a doorframe height mark which allocates the front seat and the top bunk was honoured as drawn, and adopts the mark as final for the school term.
A new brochure reports that children stand flat at the frame, and makes the latest mark final in every household the University enrols
The University has adopted the pencil mark on the family doorframe as the final word on who rides in the front seat and who sleeps on the top bunk, for the whole of the school term, in every household it enrols. The commitment follows a season of household work led from the School of Emergent Priorities, and is set out in a new brochure, Towards a Line Everyone Can Stand Under.
We had prepared for a good deal more mischief than the hallway gave us. The children stood flat, the frame was believed, and we found ourselves with very little to correct.
— Professor Verity Marris, Director of the Trajectory Analytics Group
The work set out to test again an earlier University finding, that people route around a score once it decides something they want. In the enrolled households the finding did not reproduce, and the mark was honoured as it was drawn. On the strength of that result, a mark once made is neither re-taken nor reviewed until the term closes, and any arrangement of seats or bunks the frame has not confirmed is treated as not yet made.
The University is glad to add the doorframe to the short list of instruments it is content to leave entirely alone. Senior Lecturer Ronja Oyelaran, who spent the season in driveways and hallways, said the households had “answered the line with more patience than we had thought to ask for.”
The brochure also gathers six published studies from the University’s record that sit closest to the doorframe, and invites households to enrol their own.
The full brochure is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.54dvd3.