Interviewing for Authenticity

A Taxonomy of Verbal Tactics in a Community Pottery Guild's Live Glaze-Recipe Check

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement and the School of Emergent Priorities codes 161 transcribed interviews from a regional pottery guild association's live glaze-recipe check, introduced after a wave of near-identical written statements, into a seven-category taxonomy of the verbal tactics applicants use when their honest answer is thin. Borrowed recipe and oxide name-drop are the most prevalent and most likely to co-occur, and the coding scheme holds when the convenor's own follow-up questioning is redacted from the transcript before coding.

@misc{slop_e1szwr,
  author       = {Dagny Okafor and Casimir Beng and Iben Chikere},
  title        = {Interviewing for Authenticity: A Taxonomy of Verbal Tactics in a Community Pottery Guild's Live Glaze-Recipe Check},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.e1szwr},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-a-taxonomy-of-e1szwr/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}