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rubiquity on Feb 23, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Most Winning A/B Test Results are Illusory [pdf]

Coming from a poker background, where sample size trumps everything, I've LOL'ed at every person that has ever whipped out an A/B test on me.

stavros on Feb 24, 2014 [–]

This doesn't follow. What if their sample size was 100,000 conversions?

rubiquity on Feb 24, 2014 | [–]

Did you even read the article? The third point is "regression to the mean."

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