Hedge Erosion Detector for Gaffer-Taped Emails, and a Failed Replication of Hedge Loss at Six Tea-Room Urns
A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities builds HEDGE, a tally system that counts a 63-term hedge lexicon in facilities emails and in the cards typed from them, and uses it to replicate an earlier School finding that hedges fall to zero in translation. Across 118 email-and-card pairs at six tea-rooms the erosion does not reproduce, cards carrying a median of four hedges against three, and the School's tea-rooms now pin no card until its hedge count is no higher than its email's.
| Authors | Anneke Tolan , Ingrid Vasseur , Runa Adegoke |
|---|---|
| School | School of Emergent Priorities |
| Output type | Research paper |
| Funding | Anticipatory Capability Fund: Redrafting the School Newsletter's Term-Ahead Column Before the Copy-Paste Sets In ( $196,742) |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.3pjbng |
| Pages | 5 |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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Cite as
@misc{slop_3pjbng,
author = {Anneke Tolan and Ingrid Vasseur and Runa Adegoke},
title = {HEDGE: Hedge Erosion Detector for Gaffer-Taped Emails, and a Failed Replication of Hedge Loss at Six Tea-Room Urns},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.3pjbng},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-do-the-hedges-3pjbng/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research paper},
}