Towards a General Account of Crate-Bounded Priority Formation

A Failed Domestic Replication of an Office-Restack Finding, Tested on 58 Households' House-Move Boxes

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities attempts a domestic replication of an earlier office-restack finding that crate-opening order tracks project priority, logging 612 boxes across 58 households moving house. The relationship does not reproduce: garage and shed stack position predicts opening latency far more strongly than self-rated priority, and boxes still sealed after nine months are mostly cleared unopened at a single kerbside hard-rubbish collection.

@misc{slop_90amlj,
  author       = {Hedvig Anyanwu and Ronja Oyelaran and Iben Chikere},
  title        = {Towards a General Account of Crate-Bounded Priority Formation: A Failed Domestic Replication of an Office-Restack Finding, Tested on 58 Households' House-Move Boxes},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.90amlj},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-does-a-fixed-90amlj/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}