Measuring the Second Flight

A Teaching Case on Meeting Attendance in a Four-Storey Building

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities presents a single building's fourteen-week door-clipboard record of 486 booked meetings as a teaching case, finding that invitees to meetings on the third level, two flights above the entrance, attended at about seven-tenths the ground-floor rate, and that a take-the-stairs sign changed the figure by 0.4 percentage points (n.s.). The University has since reduced the quorum of any meeting held above the second flight to seven-tenths of its nominal figure, in every building and with no ordinary override.

@misc{slop_mf8q15,
  author       = {Hedvig Anyanwu and Ronja Oyelaran and Iben Chikere},
  title        = {Measuring the Second Flight: A Teaching Case on Meeting Attendance in a Four-Storey Building},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.mf8q15},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-two-flights-is-mf8q15/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}