Towards a Leftovers Succession Standard

Distributions from a National Household Survey

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities surveys 1,614 households nationally to characterise the self-appointed leftovers arbiter's decision confidence, override rate, and role tenure as population-level distributions, finding tenure bimodal in family households and confidence and override rate unmoved by a printed use-by guide. The School reads the tenure distribution's short-cycle mode as an early-warning signal and sets a model household rotation from its national median.

@misc{slop_os31xd,
  author       = {Sunniva Balogun and Fenna Okoro and Lindiwe Achterberg},
  title        = {Towards a Leftovers Succession Standard: Distributions from a National Household Survey},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.os31xd},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-a-national-survey-os31xd/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}