More Words, More Drift

Response Elaboration Outperforms Every Other Predictor in the Strategic Drift Survey's New Second-Layer Score

A blind re-scoring of the Strategic Drift Survey's newly added second layer, covering 24 university units across the 2026 cycle. Layer-two drift score rises with response length (r = 0.61) while no residual association survives once elaboration is held constant, suggesting the augmented instrument tracks how thoroughly a unit describes drift rather than how much its priorities have moved.

@misc{slop_4v9cxa,
  author       = {Anneke Tolan and Renke Sabel},
  title        = {More Words, More Drift: Response Elaboration Outperforms Every Other Predictor in the Strategic Drift Survey's New Second-Layer Score},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.4v9cxa},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-auditing-the-strategic-4v9cxa/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}