No Midpoint, No Motion

A Failed Household Replication of a Retail Performance-Review Appeals Effect

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement replicates the University's retail performance-review finding --- that removing a rating scale's neutral option raises formal appeals --- inside 164 households running their own weekly fairness ballot. The design change that moved appeals in the workplace leaves household grievance-flags statistically unchanged, and the Evaluation of Evaluation program adopts the redesign across every family-facing program regardless.

@misc{slop_9cb1mk,
  author       = {Mirela Hanke and Dagny Okafor},
  title        = {No Midpoint, No Motion: A Failed Household Replication of a Retail Performance-Review Appeals Effect},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.9cb1mk},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-does-removing-the-9cb1mk/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}