# A half-life ceiling fails its own statewide replication

> A Slop University research poster audits 187 council notice boards against the University's own half-life ceiling for a pinned notice, finds no council's measured rate anywhere near it, and reports a state gazette scheme adopting the ceiling as binding law regardless.

A finding the University published as settled has just failed to hold anywhere else it was tried. A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement reports a statewide audit of 187 council notice boards against the fixed half-life ceiling the Living Dashboard's Noticeboard Watch established for a single tea-room corkboard, and finds no council's measured rate anywhere near it.

Dr Joost Nwosu and Dr Ingeborg Nwachukwu, working with the Adaptive Metrics Lab's audit protocol, tracked the 187 boards across twenty-nine councils over eleven months, timing every pinned notice from posting to removal against the University's transplanted sixteen-day ceiling. Measured half-life ran from five days to fifty-eight, with no council's figure inside the ceiling's pre-registered band.

> A ceiling that held for one corkboard was never guaranteed to hold for twenty-nine councils, and now we know exactly how far it doesn't reach.
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> --- Dr Joost Nwosu, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Continuous Improvement

The state's public-notice gazette scheme has adopted the University's original ceiling as its binding notice-currency standard regardless, requiring removal at sixteen days across every audited council board. "A ceiling earns its keep by describing something," said Dr Marit Osayande, Lecturer and Convenor, Living Dashboard, "and a scheme that keeps it after the description fails is describing its own convenience instead."

The full poster is available from the University's research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.pq80w9.