I've heard that life is like a box of chocolates. I've also heard that stringing together aphorisms, shaky analogies, and vacuous statements doesn't make a cohe

I've heard that life is like a box of chocolates. I've also heard that stringing together aphorisms, shaky analogies, and vacuous statements doesn't make a coherent argument, but the size of Jeff Atwood's audience suggests I'm wrong. More A/B testing for me? Look, A/B testing is a tool using statistical tests of significance. These statistical tests are based on a bunch of assumptions, the most important of which is (usually) independent and identically distributed data (i.i.d.) If your data isn't i.i.d. (like, say, the changes in opinions and attitudes that occurred over the many years during which the automobile was developed) the conclusions reached by the test don't hold. Still, not investing in automobiles was probably a good investment unless you got lucky.