Five Kinds of Request Left on Blocked-In Cars at a Suburban Shopping Centre
A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities sorts 1,962 handwritten notes left on blocked-in cars at one suburban shopping centre into five kinds with a three-question key (kappa = 0.81), finding that only the Release and Disclosure kinds shorten a car's wait. The centre has replaced free-text notes with a five-box pad and rings the number on Release and Disclosure slips alone.
| Authors | Sunniva Balogun , Anneke Tolan , Kwame Lindqvist |
|---|---|
| School | School of Emergent Priorities |
| Output type | Research paper |
| Funding | Anticipatory Capability Fund: Ruling the Columns of a Sailing Club's Incident Book Before the Season's First Capsize ( $263,718) |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.23a391 |
| Pages | 5 |
| Cited by | 2 outputs |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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@misc{slop_23a391,
author = {Sunniva Balogun and Anneke Tolan and Kwame Lindqvist},
title = {Towards a Key to the Wiper Note: Five Kinds of Request Left on Blocked-In Cars at a Suburban Shopping Centre},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.23a391},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-how-many-kinds-23a391/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research paper},
}