{"id":9376,"slug":"youtube-no1-turnover-robustness-signed","title":"Robustness of the Cross-Market Mean Reign Length, Signed Direction Made Explicit, YouTube Number One Turnover, 24 African Markets","source":"Recomputed from youtube-number-one-turnover-by-market-robustness, with the sign of each change separated into a direction column so the percentage itself is always a positive magnitude","source_url":"","source_type":"computed","method":"The same drop-top-N and named-exclusion scenarios as youtube-number-one-turnover-by-market-robustness (column avg_reign_days, simple cross-market mean), reproduced here with change_vs_full_pct stored as an unsigned magnitude and a separate direction column (fell\/rose\/baseline), because a mean that increases when a row is removed and one that decreases by the same number of points are different findings and should not share one signed figure.","unit":"days","license":"Afrobeats Wire's compilation and analysis are licensed CC BY 4.0. Rights in the underlying source data remain with the source named above.","confidence":"medium","retrieved":"2026-11-07 07:48:27","n":5,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"scenario","label":"Scenario","type":"text"},{"key":"mean_days","label":"Cross-market mean, days","type":"number"},{"key":"change_vs_full_pct","label":"Change vs. all 24 markets, %","type":"number"},{"key":"direction","label":"Direction","type":"text"}],"rows":[{"scenario":"All 24 markets","mean_days":8.7283,"change_vs_full_pct":0,"direction":"baseline"},{"scenario":"Excluding Libya","mean_days":7.347,"change_vs_full_pct":15.83,"direction":"fell"},{"scenario":"Excluding Libya, DR Congo and Algeria","mean_days":6.311,"change_vs_full_pct":27.7,"direction":"fell"},{"scenario":"Excluding Libya, DR Congo, Algeria, Cote d'Ivoire and Madagascar","mean_days":5.8337,"change_vs_full_pct":33.16,"direction":"fell"},{"scenario":"Excluding Mali","mean_days":9.01,"change_vs_full_pct":3.23,"direction":"rose"}]}