Split, Not Spotted

An Eighteen-Month Audit of a Fitness Chain's Locker-Overstay Excuse Taxonomy

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement audits eighteen months of a fitness chain's front-desk locker-overstay excuse log across six branches, testing whether the schema's growth from 6 to 41 categories tracks genuinely new excuses or repeated splits of existing ones; 83% of new categories turn out to be splits, and 46% of the schema's categories have logged exactly one incident since creation.

@misc{slop_9etuw2,
  author       = {Renke Sabel and Dagny Okafor},
  title        = {Split, Not Spotted: An Eighteen-Month Audit of a Fitness Chain's Locker-Overstay Excuse Taxonomy},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.9etuw2},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-cataloguing-the-growing-9etuw2/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}