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It's popular because math and stats are always right. Even if you've hacked your A/B test to the point of where you should have zero confidence in the results,
by sbov 8y ago
It's popular because math and stats are always right. Even if you've hacked your A/B test to the point of where you should have zero confidence in the results, you can still point to them and say "math says this is the best decision, so we should take it".
- darawk 8y agoThat may be part of it, but maybe more importantly, it's also cheaper, which I think was the grandparent's point.
- hinkley 8y agoLies, damn lies, and statistics.
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoYes, in addition you need to define "right" -- people are fickle beasts. You can test, find something is objectively better, but then have your users dislike it for fashion or historic reasons, or whatever.