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Does Losing the Edit Button Make Group-Chat Arguments Run Longer?

A regression-discontinuity design at group chats' fifteen-minute edit deadline

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities treats a group chat's fifteen-minute message-edit deadline as a natural experiment, finding that disputes settled by a visible public correction run measurably longer than those settled by a silent edit. The University is now weighing the same deadline for staff email.

Authors Kwame Lindqvist , Tove Ilesanmi , Sunniva Balogun
School School of Emergent Priorities
Output type Research poster
Published
DOI 10.5555/slop.ojc9q8
Pages 1
Version 1.0
Licence CC BY 4.0

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@misc{slop_ojc9q8,
  author       = {Kwame Lindqvist and Tove Ilesanmi and Sunniva Balogun},
  title        = {Does Losing the Edit Button Make Group-Chat Arguments Run Longer?: A regression-discontinuity design at group chats' fifteen-minute edit deadline},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.ojc9q8},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-a-group-chat-s-ojc9q8/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}