Attribution · The holdout · Element

The action

What the result changed, agreed before the test ran.

The part

What it is

Deciding beforehand is what prevents an inconvenient result being explained away, which is the normal fate of holdout findings.

A test whose result changed nothing was a test nobody intended to act on.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.