Does Roster Age Really Predict What Gets Kerbed on Bin Night?

A Pre-Registered Direct Replication of an Earlier Street-Audit Finding on Bin-Night Compliance and Kerb-Copying

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement pre-registers a direct replication of an earlier street-audit finding that a laminated bin-night roster's authority decays with age, across 31 residential streets in a fresh council portfolio. Neither the original roster-match decay nor the neighbour-copy rise reproduces, and the null survives a same-council ablation; the Review Cadence Observatory responds by proposing that every audited council fix its bin-roster reissue to an unbending quarterly calendar regardless of any street's observed compliance.

@misc{slop_lhmgn3,
  author       = {Osei Vandermeer and Dagny Okafor and Fenna Okoro},
  title        = {Does Roster Age Really Predict What Gets Kerbed on Bin Night?: A Pre-Registered Direct Replication of an Earlier Street-Audit Finding on Bin-Night Compliance and Kerb-Copying},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.lhmgn3},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-does-roster-age-lhmgn3/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}