Counting the Good China

An object-level survey and 18-month occasion-eligibility diary of household effects held for best

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities inventories 2,904 household effects held for best across 341 households and pairs the inventory with an 18-month prospective occasion diary in which households convene to rule candidate occasions eligible or ineligible. Only 4.1% of 5,118 logged occasions were ruled eligible, most of those were deferred anyway, and each year of non-use raises an object's elicited qualifying threshold by 0.23 index points --- the reserve behaves as a ratchet.

@misc{slop_dy3i86,
  author       = {Runa Adegoke and Iben Chikere and Lindiwe Achterberg},
  title        = {Counting the Good China: An object-level survey and 18-month occasion-eligibility diary of household effects held for best},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.dy3i86},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-every-household-can-dy3i86/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}