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.
| Authors | Joost Nwosu , Casimir Beng , Renke Sabel |
|---|---|
| School | School of Continuous Improvement |
| Output type | Research paper |
| Funding | Indicator 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 | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.g0hcqu |
| Pages | 5 |
| Cited by | 7 outputs |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC 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},
}