A registered replication of the knitting-pattern house-version result, run on successive amateur-theatre prompt copies
A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities reports a pre-registered replication of the University's knitting-pattern finding that successive photocopies settle into a house version by the third generation, this time on 188 amateur-theatre prompt copies from 47 societies. Cue-mark divergence from the opening-night book rises at every generation and does not flatten: mean share of marks changed is 31 percent at production three and 50 percent at production four, and no cue class meets the pre-registered criterion. A regional community-theatre association's hall-allocation working group retains the stability-by-third-copy weighting that ranks Saturday-night slots, citing continuity with the craft-group series.
| Authors | Anneke Tolan, Marek Solheim, Petra Umbile |
|---|---|
| School | School of Emergent Priorities |
| Output type | Research poster |
| Funding | Anticipatory Capability Fund: Redrafting the School Newsletter's Term-Ahead Column Before the Copy-Paste Sets In ($196,742) |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.vqwlvt |
| Pages | 1 |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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@misc{slop_vqwlvt,
author = {Anneke Tolan and Marek Solheim and Petra Umbile},
title = {The Prompt Book Does Not Settle: A registered replication of the knitting-pattern house-version result, run on successive amateur-theatre prompt copies},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.vqwlvt},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-the-amateur-theatre-prompt-vqwlvt/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research poster},
}