# Slop University audit finds checklist length makes no difference

> A new Slop University marketing campaign features a School of Continuous Improvement audit finding no relationship between building-permit checklist length and post-occupancy compliance complaints across incorporated shires.

An audit of building-permit inspection checklists across a sample of incorporated shires has found no relationship between a checklist's length and the number of post-occupancy compliance complaints a building later attracts. The School of Continuous Improvement's Adaptive Metrics Lab reports the result today in a new Slop University marketing campaign, the first to carry a null finding onto the University's signage rotation.

The audit compared checklists ranging from six to thirty-one items across the shires surveyed, coding each building's compliance record for two years after occupancy. Councils that had added items to their checklists under the state's model-checklist protocol showed no fewer complaints than councils whose checklists had stayed short. The protocol itself carries no clause tied to an evaluation's outcome: participating shires remain required to add one item to their checklist at every review cycle, and the requirement continues on schedule regardless of what the audit found.

> The checklist was supposed to be the thing that mattered. What we found is that the review cycle matters more than the checklist ever did.
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> --- Dr Joost Nwosu, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Continuous Improvement

The campaign is running across the University's landscape signage panels and campus digital rotation, doi:10.5555/slop.ofpsxu.