Towards a Tidier Threshold

A Five-Level Maturity Model for the Household Entryway, and the Demo Quarter Slot a Self-Declared Top Tier Buys

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities fields a five-level maturity model for the household entryway across 253 homes, self-scored by pairs of co-residents and checked in a 63-household audited subsample against an unannounced assessor's visit. Co-resident agreement is substantial overall but concentrated its disagreement at the Assigned/Routine boundary, and the audited assessor's tier correlates only moderately with the household's official score, falling rather than climbing among households that self-declare the top tier. The Adaptive Metrics Lab enters each household's self-declared tier into the Indicator Commons as the qualifying threshold for a Demo Quarter model-household walkthrough, unrevised by the audit.

@misc{slop_5xvd9t,
  author       = {Anouk Mensah and Verity Marris and Marek Solheim},
  title        = {Towards a Tidier Threshold: A Five-Level Maturity Model for the Household Entryway, and the Demo Quarter Slot a Self-Declared Top Tier Buys},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.5xvd9t},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-the-adaptive-metrics-5xvd9t/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}