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Reassigning the Duty Officer Resets a Courtyard's Deterrence Maturity Clock

Tenure, Not Design, Predicts Pigeon-Deterrence Maturity Across Forty-One Campus Courtyards

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities finds that a rostered courtyard duty officer's tenure, not courtyard hardware or foot traffic, best predicts a courtyard's attained level on the University's five-level Pigeon Deterrence Maturity Model, and that reassigning the officers of underperforming courtyards under the model's own remediation rule left those courtyards' scores lower rather than higher two terms on.

AuthorsRuna Adegoke, Osei Vandermeer, Anouk Mensah
SchoolSchool of Emergent Priorities
Output typeResearch paper
Published
DOI10.5555/slop.7c1cw3
Pages5
Version1.0
LicenceCC BY 4.0

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@misc{slop_7c1cw3,
  author       = {Runa Adegoke and Osei Vandermeer and Anouk Mensah},
  title        = {Reassigning the Duty Officer Resets a Courtyard's Deterrence Maturity Clock: Tenure, Not Design, Predicts Pigeon-Deterrence Maturity Across Forty-One Campus Courtyards},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.7c1cw3},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-the-courtyard-duty-7c1cw3/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}