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Strangers Leave Three Hand-Widths Between Them on a Bus-Stop Bench

The School of Continuous Improvement Impact Report 2021–2026, and the meeting-room seating standard drawn from the survey

The School of Continuous Improvement's Impact Report 2021-2026 reports a five-season survey of 61,208 pairs of adjacent strangers on 1,340 bus-stop benches, giving the clear gap between them as a distribution with a mode of three hand-widths. Since March 2024 every seat in a School meeting room has been set at that gap, and each room's rated capacity is the number of seats that fit, with no exception sustained beyond a single review cycle.

AuthorsMarit Osayande, Mirela Hanke, Joost Nwosu
SchoolSchool of Continuous Improvement
Output typeImpact report
FundingIndicator Stewardship Seed Fund: Keeping the Laundromat's Available-Machine Board Honest After the Regulars Stop Reporting ($158,439)
Published
DOI10.5555/slop.2fc562
Pages12
Version1.0
LicenceCC BY 4.0

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@misc{slop_2fc562,
  author       = {Marit Osayande and Mirela Hanke and Joost Nwosu},
  title        = {Strangers Leave Three Hand-Widths Between Them on a Bus-Stop Bench: The School of Continuous Improvement Impact Report 2021–2026, and the meeting-room seating standard drawn from the survey},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.2fc562},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-impact-to-establish-the-2fc562/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Impact report},
}