Advice to Stop

Asymmetric Uptake of Retirement Recommendations in a Groundwater Monitoring Decision-Support Tool

A paper from the School of Underlying Conditions and the School of Continuous Improvement follows 522 recommendations a value-of-information advisor made across twelve quarterly reviews of a 212-bore groundwater monitoring network, and finds nine hydrographers accepted its advice to add measurements at 81% and its advice to retire bores at 12%. Randomly presenting retirement as a four-quarter pause raised acceptance from 15% to 48%, though 22 of the 31 paused bores had their pause extended at expiry rather than resumed.

@misc{slop_gylhk7,
  author       = {Vigdis Emenike and Mirela Hanke},
  title        = {Advice to Stop: Asymmetric Uptake of Retirement Recommendations in a Groundwater Monitoring Decision-Support Tool},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.gylhk7},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-why-operators-of-gylhk7/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}