Ringed, Not Riding

a suburban pigeon-racing club's entered-versus-returned quadrant predicts transporter-crate access perfectly, and race-day speed almost not at all

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement tracks fourteen suburban pigeon-racing clubs' weekly entered-versus-returned attendance quadrant across an eighteen-round premiership season, finding the quadrant predicts transporter-crate allocation with total reliability while showing no reliable association with race velocity (n = 386, r = 0.06). Verified Active lofts held every guaranteed crate seat across the season; lofts sorted into the board's lower cells received none, regardless of recorded speed.

@misc{slop_yl67qc,
  author       = {Marit Osayande and Casimir Beng},
  title        = {Ringed, Not Riding: a suburban pigeon-racing club's entered-versus-returned quadrant predicts transporter-crate access perfectly, and race-day speed almost not at all},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.yl67qc},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-does-a-pigeon-racing-yl67qc/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}