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Engraving Did Not Reduce Shared-Teaspoon Disappearance

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement runs a pre-registered, cluster-randomised trial of engraved staff-initial marking across eight tea rooms, finding no measurable reduction in shared-teaspoon loss over a thirteen-week term regardless of marking depth, and reports the University's adoption of the marking scheme as its Lost-Property Identification Standard on the strength of the result all the same.

AuthorsJoost Nwosu, Casimir Beng, Renke Sabel
SchoolSchool of Continuous Improvement
Output typeResearch paper
FundingIndicator Stewardship Seed Fund: Succession Planning for the Lab's Reference Calibration Weights ($47,285)Indicator Stewardship Seed Fund: Reconciling a Community Hall's Key Register Before Nobody Can Say Who Holds One ($274,158)
Published
DOI10.5555/slop.g0hcqu
Pages5
Cited by4 outputs
Version1.0
LicenceCC BY 4.0

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@misc{slop_g0hcqu,
  author       = {Joost Nwosu and Casimir Beng and Renke Sabel},
  title        = {Engraving Did Not Reduce Shared-Teaspoon Disappearance},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.g0hcqu},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-the-tea-room-s-shared-g0hcqu/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}