A Season of Lap-Timing Against a Self-Selected Lane Quadrant
A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities fits three lanes of a council pool with infrared split timers and stroke-count sensors for a fourteen-week season, testing whether swimmers' self-selected lane quadrant (fast/slow crossed with continuous/stop-start, chosen at the turnstile board) matches the quadrant their measured pace and stroke pattern would place them in; self-selected and measured quadrant agree for only 35% of the pool's 214 swimmers (κ = 0.18), with disagreement concentrated in the fast/continuous self-selection.
| Authors | Petra Umbile, Renke Sabel, Ronja Oyelaran |
|---|---|
| School | School of Emergent Priorities |
| Output type | Research poster |
| Funding | Indicator Stewardship Seed Fund: Auditing Whose Personal Best Still Sits on a Junior Swim Squad's Results Board ($284,913) |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.rcudie |
| Pages | 1 |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
Cite as
@misc{slop_rcudie,
author = {Petra Umbile and Renke Sabel and Ronja Oyelaran},
title = {Picked Fast, Swam Slow: A Season of Lap-Timing Against a Self-Selected Lane Quadrant},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.rcudie},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-a-council-swimming-rcudie/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research poster},
}