A Population Survey of Reply-Wait Tolerance Across Family, Friend, and Work-Team Group Chats
A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities surveys 340 group-chat members across family, friend, and work-team threads on the self-set grace period before an unanswered message counts as ignored, reporting the results as distributions rather than a single average. The family-chat 75th percentile is adopted as the University's fixed auto-escalation default across every internal chat channel, with no override.
| Authors | Fenna Okoro , Petra Umbile , Ingrid Vasseur |
|---|---|
| School | School of Emergent Priorities |
| Output type | Research poster |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.8qjm2n |
| Pages | 1 |
| Cited by | 28 outputs |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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Cite as
@misc{slop_8qjm2n,
author = {Fenna Okoro and Petra Umbile and Ingrid Vasseur},
title = {Family Chats Get Four Times the Reply-Wait Grace of Work Ones: A Population Survey of Reply-Wait Tolerance Across Family, Friend, and Work-Team Group Chats},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.8qjm2n},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-acceptable-reply-wait-times-8qjm2n/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research poster},
}