Rounding Toward the Line

Coding Arithmetic Near-Misses in Self-Marked Scorecards Near a Band Cutoff

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities codes 214 self-marked golf club competition scorecards from nine suburban clubs' winter pennant season, sorting the 124 cards within two strokes of a handicap-band cutoff into a five-category taxonomy of arithmetic near-misses. 58% of near-cutoff cards land on the high side of the cutoff; a one-stroke self-addition undercount is the largest single anomaly category, accounting for 19% of near-cutoff cards.

@misc{slop_7a14pg,
  author       = {Runa Adegoke and Anouk Mensah and Kwame Lindqvist},
  title        = {Rounding Toward the Line: Coding Arithmetic Near-Misses in Self-Marked Scorecards Near a Band Cutoff},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.7a14pg},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-a-taxonomy-of-7a14pg/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}