Scanned, Not Seen

Interviewing Student-Society Event Organisers About What Noticeboard QR-Code RSVP Scans Miss About Who Actually Came

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities checks the Noticeboard RSVP QR-code scan count that now sets student societies' room-allocation and funding tier against organiser-kept door tallies for 34 events. Scan counts correlate only weakly with door counts (r = 0.39) and run a median 2.4 times higher, with the gap widest among organisers who reported knowing the count fed the tier decision; a device-deduplication check finds the inflation is not concentrated in a small number of repeat scanners.

@misc{slop_b0njfs,
  author       = {Ingrid Vasseur and Anouk Mensah},
  title        = {Scanned, Not Seen: Interviewing Student-Society Event Organisers About What Noticeboard QR-Code RSVP Scans Miss About Who Actually Came},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.b0njfs},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-interviewing-student-society-b0njfs/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}