Where the List Begins

Starting rules and resident omission in a simulated household roster

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement asks 288 adults to complete 1,152 household rosters from memory for described households, under one of four instructions. Starting with the youngest resident cut infant omission from 21% to 4% but raised lodger omission from 26% to 38%, leaving the number of residents left off per roster unchanged; only coverage prompts lowered it.

@misc{slop_f3f67u,
  author       = {Renke Sabel and Signy Okpara and Ylva Onyekwere},
  title        = {Where the List Begins: Starting rules and resident omission in a simulated household roster},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.f3f67u},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-testing-whether-the-f3f67u/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}