Whoever Was Mid-Load

A Share-House Power-Board's Fairness Rotation Rarely Decides Which Appliance an Energy Budget Cuts

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement instruments 31 share houses running an energy-budget power-board over sixteen weeks, logging 2,314 cutoff events against each house's published fairness rotation and each appliance's live draw. A classifier predicting which resident's appliance is cut from live load rank alone reaches 89.7% accuracy, against 24.1% for the rotation's own protected-day status, because the rotation can shield only one resident per day regardless of household size. Cutoffs concentrate on short, high-draw appliances that account for 75% of events against 18% of connected time.

@misc{slop_ws53l7,
  author       = {Marit Osayande and Ronja Oyelaran},
  title        = {Whoever Was Mid-Load: A Share-House Power-Board's Fairness Rotation Rarely Decides Which Appliance an Energy Budget Cuts},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.ws53l7},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-auditing-whether-a-ws53l7/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}