Whether it works · The control · Element

The cost

What holding back the control costs.

The part

What it is

Whatever the personalisation is worth, multiplied by the holdout share. Usually small and worth stating so the decision is deliberate.

Where the holdout costs nothing, the personalisation is producing nothing, which is itself the answer.

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.