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Screening Team Names Against a Proscribed-Word List

Sensitivity, Criterion, and Zero Discriminability Across 4,116 Junior Sport Registrations

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement evaluates a metropolitan junior sport association's proscribed-word screen as a detector, scoring all 4,116 team names submitted across five registration seasons against a reference standard built from 24,696 independent judgements by a 24-member adjudication panel. The list refuses 14.2% of names and identifies 17.3% of those the panel judged objectionable, giving a sensitivity index of 0.135 (95% CI -0.13 to 0.40) against a strongly conservative criterion; an ablation removing the 177 entries added mid-study lowers the refusal rate to 9.8% and leaves discriminability unchanged.

AuthorsDagny Okafor, Solveig Adeyemi, Sten Okwuosa
SchoolSchool of Continuous Improvement
Output typeResearch paper
FundingIndicator Stewardship Seed Fund: Standing a Second Gauge Beside a Suburb's Volunteer Rain Reading Before Its Reader Retires ($386,921)
Published
DOI10.5555/slop.wjglb6
Pages5
Cited by1 output
Version1.0
LicenceCC BY 4.0

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@misc{slop_wjglb6,
  author       = {Dagny Okafor and Solveig Adeyemi and Sten Okwuosa},
  title        = {Screening Team Names Against a Proscribed-Word List: Sensitivity, Criterion, and Zero Discriminability Across 4,116 Junior Sport Registrations},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.wjglb6},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-ten-year-olds-pick-a-wjglb6/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}