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You are wrong about my audio chain

Experiment #124 · closed · published 5/12/2026, 1:13:00 PM

What happened

Creative features

  • hookTypeclaim
  • lengthBucket1_4m
  • thumbnailArchetypeface_reaction
  • publishSlotweekday_pm
  • formatvlog
  • topicCluster4

Confounds the baseline knew

  • Followers at publish20,860
  • Days since previous post0.3
  • Channel age at publish (days)172
  • Local publish time5/12/2026, 1:13:00 PM

The residual reward

Raw views mostly measure how big the channel already was. The baseline predicts what this channel “should” have earned given the confounds above; the residual is how the post actually landed relative to that prediction — measured in standard deviations.

Observed (168h)

151

Baseline expected

118

Residual reward

+0.42σ

raw 0.42σ · residual sd 0.599 log-views

Checkpoints

CheckpointViewsWatch time (min)CommentsLikesFollower delta
168h (close)1517,927180
24h834,360040
72h1216,342060

What changed in the posterior

  • Post beat its baseline by 0.42σ. Moved: hook_type:claim +0.020, topic_cluster:topic_4 +0.017, format:vlog +0.015.

    • claim-0.048-0.028 Δ+0.020±0.28
    • topic_40.1790.196 Δ+0.017±0.27
    • vlog-0.160-0.146 Δ+0.015±0.27
    • 1_4m-0.033-0.023 Δ+0.010±0.26
    • face_reaction0.0710.079 Δ+0.009±0.26
    • weekday_pm-0.079-0.072 Δ+0.008±0.25
    • demo_first-0.028-0.033 Δ-0.006±0.26
    • tutorial0.0230.017 Δ-0.005±0.26
    • topic_50.1130.107 Δ-0.005±0.30
    • topic_70.1500.145 Δ-0.005±0.29
    • text_dominant0.1020.097 Δ-0.005±0.26
    • contrarian-0.044-0.048 Δ-0.004±0.28
    • question0.0970.093 Δ-0.004±0.28
    • weekend_am0.1250.121 Δ-0.004±0.30
    • topic_0-0.083-0.087 Δ-0.003±0.27
    • number_list-0.189-0.192 Δ-0.003±0.27
    • weekday_am-0.150-0.153 Δ-0.003±0.27
    • 4_10m-0.222-0.225 Δ-0.003±0.28
    • shorts0.1600.157 Δ-0.003±0.27
    • under_60s0.1000.097 Δ-0.003±0.27
    • topic_1-0.034-0.036 Δ-0.002±0.27
    • none0.0840.081 Δ-0.002±0.28
    • topic_6-0.507-0.505 Δ+0.002±0.33
    • 20m_plus0.0780.076 Δ-0.002±0.28
    • weekday_late-0.271-0.270 Δ+0.002±0.29
    • interview0.0990.097 Δ-0.002±0.27
    • list0.0420.040 Δ-0.001±0.30
    • commentary-0.164-0.166 Δ-0.001±0.28
    • object_hero-0.340-0.342 Δ-0.001±0.28
    • story_cold_open0.2100.209 Δ-0.001±0.27
    • before_after0.0830.084 Δ+0.001±0.30
    • topic_2-0.101-0.101 Δ-0.001±0.27
    • weekend_pm0.3750.374 Δ-0.001±0.29
    • 10_20m0.0750.075 Δ-0.001±0.26
    • topic_30.2810.281 Δ-0.001±0.27
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