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Invert it. What we really care about is the percent of users who are experiencing a higher-than-tolerable response time, right? Why not measure that instead of
by gmisra 13y ago
Invert it. What we really care about is the percent of users who are experiencing a higher-than-tolerable response time, right? Why not measure that instead of using descriptive statistics whose goal is primarily to describe the entire distribution? Do we even care about the variance in response time amongst everybody below the threshold?
- dsiroker 13y agoYou are exactly right. The goal here isn't to optimally describe the entire distribution but to improve the end-user experience for higher-than-tolerable response times. The difference between 80ms and 100ms isn't noticeable. Between 100ms and 1000ms it certainly is.