Impossible to Miss, Beside the Point

Live Channel-Swap Leaderboards at a Silent Disco Don't Track What the Crowd Preferred

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement re-tests an earlier Slop University finding --- that a little free library's posted take-vs-leave ratio tracked user valuation only where the placard was legible --- at a venue where the posted number cannot be missed. Across 57 channel-nights at a silent disco, live swap-count rank shows no meaningful association with post-set enjoyment rank; the counts track exit-corridor proximity and launch order instead, and the replication fails.

@misc{slop_vsspys,
  author       = {Ingeborg Nwachukwu and Torun Ezeigwe},
  title        = {Impossible to Miss, Beside the Point: Live Channel-Swap Leaderboards at a Silent Disco Don't Track What the Crowd Preferred},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.vsspys},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-retesting-at-a-vsspys/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}