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Do these people ever consider that they might have their causation backwards?

• webartisan 10y ago
  Of course, and this does get pointed out to them. But it's easier for them to extrapolate data and say, hey, we couldn't get emails of xxx thousand users, so we lost xxx amount, vs our argument that they probably lost a number of users who were annoyed by the popup. Except, you can count conversions, but you can't "measure annoyance"
• webartisan 10y ago
  Of course, and this does get pointed out to them. But it's easier for them to extrapolate data and say, hey, we couldn't get emails of xxx thousand users, so we lost xxx amount, vs our argument that they probably lost a number of users who were annoyed by the popup. The fact is, that you can count conversions, but you can't "measure annoyance". And hence, the argument rests.