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Where Do Trees Get Their Mass?
Veritasium · 3 HN recommenders · 3 recommendation months
Recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 months (2015–2021).
SignalTube analysis
Among 36 other explainer videos tagged Scientific method & science communication, the mean is 3.9 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 3 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 3 distinct months; the peer average is 3.6 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
75% of its 4 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2015–2021; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 4 minutes 10 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2012-03-12.
- Channel / speaker
- Veritasium
- Verified runtime
- 4m 10s
- YouTube upload date
- 2012-03-12
- Hacker News mention years
- 2015–2021
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other explainer videos in Scientific method & science communication. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where Do Trees Get Their Mass?Current video | 3 | 3 | 75% | — | 4m 10s | 2012-03-12 |
| Why Being Delusional is a Superpowerexplainer · Veritasium | 9 | 9 | 45% | No recorded overlap | 12m 4s | 2020-08-28 |
| I promise this story about microwaves is interesting.explainer · Tom Scott | 9 | 7 | 45% | No recorded overlap | 12m 9s | 2021-05-17 |
| Is Most Published Research Wrong?explainer · Veritasium | 8 | 8 | 42% | No recorded overlap | 12m 22s | 2016-08-11 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a strong recommendation in “Where does a candle go when it burns?”. Its short rationale: Highly enlightening video on tree mass.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “When somebody loses weight, where does the fat go?”. Its short rationale: Fun demonstration of how unintuitive tree mass is.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “When You Lose Weight, Where Does It Go?”. Its short rationale: Street interviews on where tree mass comes from, as a learning exercise.