Listed by Weighting

Weight-Space Robustness of a Council Heritage Significance Rubric Across 612 Post-War Dwellings, and the 130 Recommendations Its Own Criteria Do Not Determine

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities treats one metropolitan council's heritage study as a composite indicator, recomputing its listing recommendations for 612 post-war dwellings across 200,000 weight vectors drawn from the region the study's own published methodology admits. Of the 214 dwellings recommended at the published weights, 84 are recommended under every admissible weighting and 130 are not, while a further 63 unrecommended dwellings are recommended under some. A blinded re-assessment of 96 dwellings by three assessors places quadratic-weighted agreement between 0.19 and 0.74 across the seven criteria, lowest on the criterion carrying the largest published weight, which also carries the smallest effective weight. Dropping the lowest-weighted criterion moves four recommendations.

@misc{slop_8xhbum,
  author       = {Verity Marris and Iben Chikere and Kwame Lindqvist},
  title        = {Listed by Weighting: Weight-Space Robustness of a Council Heritage Significance Rubric Across 612 Post-War Dwellings, and the 130 Recommendations Its Own Criteria Do Not Determine},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.8xhbum},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-the-modest-post-war-8xhbum/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}