When the Lectern Light Turns Amber

A Distributional Survey of 1,420 Resident Addresses at Council Public Question Time

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities times 1,420 resident addresses across four quarters of one council's public question time, finding the modal address ends at 2:58 of a three-minute allowance and that, once the council adopts a standing order obliging the chamber to sit in silence through each speaker's unspent seconds, addresses ending in the final ten seconds rise from 43.5% to 91.4% and none of 710 runs under a minute.

@misc{slop_zcfdr2,
  author       = {Hedvig Anyanwu and Edda Nwafor and Tove Ilesanmi},
  title        = {When the Lectern Light Turns Amber: A Distributional Survey of 1,420 Resident Addresses at Council Public Question Time},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.zcfdr2},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-two-minutes-fifty-zcfdr2/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}