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Experiment #169 · closed · published 7/15/2026, 8:43:00 AM

What happened

Creative features

  • hookTypedemo_first
  • lengthBucket10_20m
  • thumbnailArchetypeface_reaction
  • publishSlotweekday_am
  • formattutorial
  • topicCluster5

Confounds the baseline knew

  • Followers at publish25,609
  • Days since previous post0.7
  • Channel age at publish (days)236
  • Local publish time7/15/2026, 8:43:00 AM

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)

333

Baseline expected

150

Residual reward

+1.33σ

raw 1.33σ · residual sd 0.599 log-views

Checkpoints

CheckpointViewsWatch time (min)CommentsLikesFollower delta
168h (close)333104,8951171
24h18357,692190
72h26683,9161131

What changed in the posterior

  • Post beat its baseline by 1.33σ. Moved: topic_cluster:topic_5 +0.059, hook_type:demo_first +0.036, format:tutorial +0.030.

    • topic_5-0.0290.030 Δ+0.059±0.27
    • demo_first-0.085-0.050 Δ+0.036±0.25
    • tutorial-0.0030.028 Δ+0.030±0.24
    • weekday_am-0.131-0.106 Δ+0.025±0.25
    • face_reaction0.0500.073 Δ+0.022±0.25
    • 10_20m0.0380.053 Δ+0.016±0.25
    • topic_30.2560.241 Δ-0.016±0.25
    • topic_40.1800.166 Δ-0.014±0.25
    • weekend_pm0.1640.152 Δ-0.012±0.26
    • weekday_pm-0.051-0.062 Δ-0.011±0.24
    • claim-0.172-0.183 Δ-0.011±0.25
    • interview0.1580.148 Δ-0.011±0.24
    • 1_4m0.0600.051 Δ-0.009±0.25
    • topic_2-0.179-0.187 Δ-0.008±0.26
    • topic_70.1780.171 Δ-0.007±0.27
    • topic_0-0.054-0.061 Δ-0.007±0.25
    • under_60s0.0800.073 Δ-0.007±0.26
    • story_cold_open0.1970.190 Δ-0.007±0.25
    • 20m_plus-0.092-0.085 Δ+0.007±0.27
    • before_after0.0850.079 Δ-0.006±0.27
    • commentary-0.020-0.025 Δ-0.005±0.26
    • weekday_late-0.133-0.128 Δ+0.005±0.27
    • object_hero-0.279-0.284 Δ-0.005±0.26
    • number_list-0.087-0.092 Δ-0.005±0.25
    • none0.0740.070 Δ-0.004±0.26
    • contrarian-0.029-0.033 Δ-0.004±0.26
    • vlog-0.081-0.084 Δ-0.003±0.26
    • shorts-0.043-0.046 Δ-0.002±0.26
    • question0.1660.164 Δ-0.002±0.26
    • list-0.021-0.023 Δ-0.002±0.27
    • topic_1-0.076-0.077 Δ-0.001±0.25
    • text_dominant0.0600.059 Δ-0.001±0.25
    • topic_6-0.286-0.286 Δ+0.001±0.28
    • 4_10m-0.095-0.095 Δ+0.000±0.25
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