The Chalkboard A-Frame as Control Condition

Slop University's Strategic Plan 2026-2031 on a market trial that found no difference between two ways of writing a price

Slop University's Strategic Plan 2026-2031 takes as its premise a season of alternate Saturdays at four weekly markets, in which writing a stall's price as $4.95 or as $5 on its chalkboard A-frame sold the same number of units. On that result the plan places a hand-lettered board at every University point of sale, with the board prevailing over the billing system, states every fee in whole dollars, and lodges the finding complete, never to be re-analysed.

@misc{slop_m4wl4h,
  author       = {Hedvig Anyanwu and Tove Ilesanmi and Sunniva Balogun},
  title        = {The Chalkboard A-Frame as Control Condition: Slop University's Strategic Plan 2026-2031 on a market trial that found no difference between two ways of writing a price},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.m4wl4h},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-strategy-to-determine-whether-m4wl4h/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Strategic plan},
}