Locked Is Not Enough

What the Extra Spin Is Actually For

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement interviews 118 gym members across fourteen fitness centres about why they give an already-locked padlock dial a few extra turns, open-coding their stated reasons into five stable justification categories and cross-checking self-report against observed spin counts, and finds ritual completion the modal justification regardless of whether the respondent believed the spin changed anything mechanically.

@misc{slop_3a77zh,
  author       = {Solveig Adeyemi and Bram Ntuli and Torun Ezeigwe},
  title        = {Locked Is Not Enough: What the Extra Spin Is Actually For},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.3a77zh},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-interviewing-gym-members-3a77zh/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}