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The Magnet Did Not Predict Who Washed Up

Does a fridge chore chart's assignment forecast the RFID-logged doer across a school term of kitchen tasks?

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement tags a fridge chore chart's magnets with RFID and reads presence at the sink, bin store and laundry door across a 14-week school term in 46 households, finding the assigned name matches the logged doer in 22% of 1,142 task-instances --- statistically indistinguishable from the 20% expected under chance assignment, with no improvement across the term.

AuthorsOsei Vandermeer, Marek Solheim, Petra Umbile
SchoolSchool of Continuous Improvement
Output typeResearch poster
Published
DOI10.5555/slop.8srf3i
Pages1
Cited by1 output
Version1.0
LicenceCC BY 4.0

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@misc{slop_8srf3i,
  author       = {Osei Vandermeer and Marek Solheim and Petra Umbile},
  title        = {The Magnet Did Not Predict Who Washed Up: Does a fridge chore chart's assignment forecast the RFID-logged doer across a school term of kitchen tasks?},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.8srf3i},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-does-a-fridge-magnet-8srf3i/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}