Assigned Fair, Delivered by Favour

A Survey of Cook-Night Adherence to a New-Parent Meal-Train App's Fairness-Scored Roster

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities surveys 146 households across 19 active meal-train rosters over fourteen weeks of an app-assigned cook-night schedule, finding that the app's own fairness-deviation score barely predicts whether a night is honoured or swapped. An informal roster-fatigue cue --- whether a household had cooked in the preceding fortnight --- tracks the swap far more closely, and the swap rate itself falls from 41% to 9% over the course of the roster.

@misc{slop_xssj6p,
  author       = {Runa Adegoke and Solveig Adeyemi},
  title        = {Assigned Fair, Delivered by Favour: A Survey of Cook-Night Adherence to a New-Parent Meal-Train App's Fairness-Scored Roster},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.xssj6p},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-surveying-meal-train-xssj6p/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}