Collisions
Where they collide
Forty-seven times in fourteen days, one use took a room another use was already in. Median thirty-five minutes, and twenty-one of them in the kitchen.
Kitchen and dinerTwenty-one of the forty-seven happened here
16 m²
Cooking and eating
CookingEatingPaid workLaundry and adminCallsCompany
14.5
Living roomFourteen more
19 m²
Sitting
SittingPaid workCallsTelevisionCompany
11
Paid workDomestic workRest and sleepContact and care
Two rooms covering 35 square metres, built for two things. Between them they now carry eleven uses. Two of the two carry more than one, and kitchen and diner carries six. The median room is in use 12.75 of the 16 waking hours. The two rooms that between them carry thirty-five of the forty-seven collisions.
Forty-seven in fourteen days
Every collision logged in the fortnight, with what arrived, what left, which room, how long and who gave way.
Twenty-one in the kitchen
The most contested room is the second largest and the most pleasant. Six uses generate fifteen possible pairs, and most of the pairs occurred.
The four windows
Thirty-five of the forty-seven collisions happen in four hours of the day.
What a scheduled call does to a room
Thirty-four calls over the fortnight produced twenty-two of the forty-seven collisions.
The thirty-five minutes
The median collision lasted thirty-five minutes. That is not the length of the interruption, and the gap between the two is most of the cost.
The collisions nobody noticed
Nine of the forty-seven were welcome. They are counted because the test is whether an activity gave way, not whether anybody minded.
What the log cannot see
Four things happened in this fortnight that the method is structurally unable to record, and three of them probably matter more than anything it did.
Why the number is not really forty-seven
Four defensible changes to the counting rules move the total between thirty-one and sixty-two.
The collision caused by another
Seven of the forty-seven happened because somebody was already somewhere they would not otherwise have been.