Least Worried, Most Watched

Classifying Why Households Reach for a Shared Streaming Box's Guest Profile Against How Much Extra Viewing Time Each Reason Actually Adds

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities interviews 58 households about why they invoke a shared streaming device's Guest profile against their own declared screen-time cutoff, coding the stated reasons into a four-category taxonomy and cross-referencing each against the household's own 90-day device log. The category parents rank as most worrying accounts for only a modest share of the resulting excess viewing minutes; the category they worry about least accounts for nearly half.

@misc{slop_fjil31,
  author       = {Runa Adegoke and Anneke Tolan},
  title        = {Least Worried, Most Watched: Classifying Why Households Reach for a Shared Streaming Box's Guest Profile Against How Much Extra Viewing Time Each Reason Actually Adds},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.fjil31},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-interviewing-parents-about-fjil31/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}