Keep in mind that Frequent A/B tests burn statistical “credit.” Any time you ship a winner at p = 0.05 you’ve spent 5 % of your false-positive budget. Do that

Keep in mind that Frequent A/B tests burn statistical “credit.” Any time you ship a winner at p = 0.05 you’ve spent 5 % of your false-positive budget. Do that five times in a quarter and the chance at least one is noise is 1 – 0.95⁵ ≈ 23 %. There are several approaches you can take to reduce that source of error: Quarterly alpha ledger Decide how much total risk you want this quarter (say 10 %). Divide the remaining α by the number of experiments left and make that the threshold for the next launch. Forces the “is this button-color test worth 3 % of our credibility?” conversation. More info: “Sequential Testing in Practice: Why Peeking Is a Problem and How to Fix It” (https://medium.com/@aisagescribe/sequential-testing-in-practice-why-peeking-is-a-problem-and-how-to-fix-it-59d7024344f6 https://medium.com/@aisagescribe/sequential-testing-in-pract...). Benjamini–Hochberg (BH) for metric sprawl Once you watch a dozen KPIs, Bonferroni buries real lifts. BH ranks all the p-values at the end, then sets the cut so that, say, only 5 % of declared winners are false positives. You keep power, and you can run the same BH step on the primary metric from every experiment each quarter to catch lucky launches. More info: “Controlling False Discoveries: A Guide to BH Correction in Experimentation” (https://www.statsig.com/perspectives/controlling-false-discoveries-guide https://www.statsig.com/perspectives/controlling-false-disco...). Bayesian shrinkage + 5 % “ghost” control for big fleets FAANG-scale labs run hundreds of tests and care about 0.1 % lifts. They pool everything in a simple hierarchical model; noisy effects get pulled toward the global mean, so only sturdy gains stay above water. Before launch, they sanity-check against a small slice of traffic that never saw any test. Cuts winner’s-curse inflation by ~30 %. Clear explainer: “How We Avoid A/B Testing Errors with Shrinkage” (https://eng.wealthfront.com/2015/10/29/how-we-avoid-ab-testing-errors-with-shrinkage/ https://eng.wealthfront.com/2015/10/29/how-we-avoid-ab-testi...) and (https://www.statsig.com/perspectives/informed-bayesian-ab-testing https://www.statsig.com/perspectives/informed-bayesian-ab-te...) <10 tests a quarter: alpha ledger or yolo; dozens of tests and KPIs: BH; hundreds of live tests: shrinkage + ghost control.