High Score, Low Scrutiny

A Two-Gate Quasi-Experiment on Whether Displaying a Boom Gate's Autonomous-Approval Score Changes Which Vehicles Security Actually Checks

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities compares two matched car-park boom gates, one displaying its automatic number-plate reader's confidence score to staff and one logging it silently, finding console-linked intervention converges between the gates overall but nearly disappears in the top confidence band only where the score is shown to staff --- a divergence an independent desk audit finds is not explained by that band actually being any more likely to belong there.

@misc{slop_j1l7f6,
  author       = {Marek Solheim and Anouk Mensah},
  title        = {High Score, Low Scrutiny: A Two-Gate Quasi-Experiment on Whether Displaying a Boom Gate's Autonomous-Approval Score Changes Which Vehicles Security Actually Checks},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.j1l7f6},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-auditing-whether-showing-j1l7f6/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}