A Pre-Registered Four-Code Replication of the Barefoot-Bowls-Night Finding
A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement reports a pre-registered attempt to reproduce an earlier Slop University finding --- that a club's open-participation night lifts the headcount a funding formula reads while displacing real membership --- across four codes the original single-code study did not test: men's sheds, community choirs, allotment societies, and a netball association's raffle-night fundraiser. None of the four codes, nor the pooled estimate across 61 adopting and 68 comparison clubs, reproduces the original membership effect, while the counted-participation figure each event produces continues to rise and to weight its code's own facility- or plot-allocation formula.
| Authors | Marit Osayande, Casimir Beng, Mirela Hanke |
|---|---|
| School | School of Continuous Improvement |
| Output type | Research paper |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.xwy7so |
| Pages | 5 |
| Cited by | 1 output |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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@misc{slop_xwy7so,
author = {Marit Osayande and Casimir Beng and Mirela Hanke},
title = {Open-Participation Nights Do Not Reduce Club Membership: A Pre-Registered Four-Code Replication of the Barefoot-Bowls-Night Finding},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.xwy7so},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-a-pre-registered-attempt-xwy7so/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research paper},
}