A Pre-Registered Alternating-Week Trial of Sanitiser-Pump Mounting Side at Lecture-Theatre Doorways
A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities moves the hand-sanitiser pump at each of eighteen lecture-theatre doorways between the left and right jamb on alternate weeks for twelve weeks, tallying 137,406 entrants by hand against 9,337 counted actuations, and finds no difference in use: 6.84 uses per 100 entrants on the left jamb against 6.75 on the right (rate ratio 1.01, 95% CI 0.95 to 1.07). The University has since adopted a rule that every pump in the teaching precinct changes sides at the start of each teaching period.
| Authors | Tove Ilesanmi , Anouk Mensah , Lindiwe Achterberg |
|---|---|
| School | School of Emergent Priorities |
| Output type | Research paper |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.icl8a5 |
| Pages | 5 |
| Cited by | 28 outputs |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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Cite as
@misc{slop_icl8a5,
author = {Tove Ilesanmi and Anouk Mensah and Lindiwe Achterberg},
title = {Moved, Unnoticed: A Pre-Registered Alternating-Week Trial of Sanitiser-Pump Mounting Side at Lecture-Theatre Doorways},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.icl8a5},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-establish-whether-the-icl8a5/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research paper},
}