Twelve Minutes Played, Four Hours Recorded

A Work-Sampling Study of the Person-Time One Graded Music Examination Consumes at Fourteen Community Venues

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities observes 214 graded music examinations across fourteen community venues over one winter round, attributing every recorded minute to one of seven roles and one of nine artefacts on a list fixed before the first venue. Median playing time is 11.6 minutes against 217 minutes of recorded person-time per candidate, or 18.7 person-minutes for every minute played; reconciling the examinations-completed return on which the venues are funded takes 22% of that total, while the examination and the examiner's written report together account for 14%.

@misc{slop_2a606w,
  author       = {Runa Adegoke and Anouk Mensah and Sten Okwuosa},
  title        = {Twelve Minutes Played, Four Hours Recorded: A Work-Sampling Study of the Person-Time One Graded Music Examination Consumes at Fourteen Community Venues},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.2a606w},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-the-twelve-minute-graded-2a606w/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}