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Undercounted at the Gate

A Season of Manual Headcounts Against the Gate Counter, and the Expansion It Fed

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement validates a suburban dog park's automatic gate counter against 96 manual headcounts logged across a 24-week deployment, finding agreement collapses from 91% at midday to 58% at dawn -- the exact block a council's off-lead-hours expansion business case drew its dawn-hours modelling from.

AuthorsRenke Sabel, Thandiwe Solberg
SchoolSchool of Continuous Improvement
Output typeResearch poster
Published
DOI10.5555/slop.z1gj28
Pages1
Version1.0
LicenceCC BY 4.0

Cite as

@misc{slop_z1gj28,
  author       = {Renke Sabel and Thandiwe Solberg},
  title        = {Undercounted at the Gate: A Season of Manual Headcounts Against the Gate Counter, and the Expansion It Fed},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.z1gj28},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-validating-a-suburban-z1gj28/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}