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Does Crossing the Legal Depth Line Make a Backyard Pool Gate Latch Itself?

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities and the School of Continuous Improvement treats a council pool-safety register's 30cm certified-depth line as a regression-discontinuity design, finding gate self-latching compliance jumps 37.2 percentage points at the line and nowhere else across four placebo cutoffs. The University's staff-housing subsidy scheme has adopted compliant gate hardware as a standing condition for every subsidised property with an external water feature, regardless of certified depth.

Authors Fenna Okoro , Marek Solheim , Casimir Beng
School School of Emergent Priorities
Output type Research paper
Published
DOI 10.5555/slop.bfcy5m
Pages 5
Version 1.0
Licence CC BY 4.0

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@misc{slop_bfcy5m,
  author       = {Fenna Okoro and Marek Solheim and Casimir Beng},
  title        = {Does Crossing the Legal Depth Line Make a Backyard Pool Gate Latch Itself?},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.bfcy5m},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-pool-depth-cutoff-bfcy5m/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}