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How long is a piece of string? The retention rate of beta users is going to vary on such a large number of factors (some of which you mention) as to render com
by michael_dorfman 16y ago
How long is a piece of string?
The retention rate of beta users is going to vary on such a large number of factors (some of which you mention) as to render comparison futile.
- sagacity 16y agoI'd both - agree and disagree with you. :-) Yes, I guess comparing one case with another would be more or less futile. However, I do believe some kind of useful/meaningful/actionable intelligence could still be derived from case studies and statistics - don't you think so?
- michael_dorfman 16y agoThere's a big difference between a case study and statistics. A case study is just one big, detailed anecdote. You can learn from it to the degree that your situation matches the situation described-- but you still don't know if the factors that you are matching on are actually the relevant factors or not in terms of the outcome. Statistics would be wonderful, if there were a way to normalize for all of the unknown factors. Which there isn't, so they aren't.