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>>>>Employees teach new recruits to use tools for comparing the performance of one version of a feature with another and how to determine what sort of differenc
by ryanjmo 17y ago
>>>>Employees teach new recruits to use tools for comparing the performance of one version of a feature with another and how to determine what sort of difference in response is meaningful.>>>>>
I hate when people use statistical significance to determine what is meaningful. People wrongfully think you need 95% confidence in the data to make a decision and move forward with a feature change, etc. For me when I am changing things on my site based on data mining, I will make a decision with a 60% confidence (which can come within 5-10 samples in most cases). Hacking websites is engineering not science! Overall it makes sense to trade a low confidence value for speed of development.
- _delirium 17y agoStatistical significance is also not even a sufficient condition for a difference to be meaningful. In the real world, very few things are truly identical, so you can eventually get a statistically significant difference for just about any comparison, given enough samples. But the differences may be negligibly small.