The median household carries thirty-seven unread items

Five years of household badge surveys, reported as distributions, and the unread ceiling the University drew from them

The School of Continuous Improvement's Impact Report 2021-2026 follows an eleven-wave household survey of the unread count on a messaging app's red badge, reported by decile with the display limit shown as its own pile-up, into the University's unread ceiling: no staff inbox, pigeonhole or noticeboard may hold more than thirty-seven unread items, the surplus is archived unread at midnight, and the figure is held at the 2023 median while later household medians are recorded and not applied.

@misc{slop_pjfbqd,
  author       = {Mirela Hanke and Osei Vandermeer},
  title        = {The median household carries thirty-seven unread items: Five years of household badge surveys, reported as distributions, and the unread ceiling the University drew from them},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.pjfbqd},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-impact-thirty-seven-is-the-pjfbqd/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Impact report},
}