Re:p-Hacking and False Discovery in A/B Testing
by glup on Sunday July 22, 2018 @04:35PM
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The difference is that the people in academia know that it is statistically unsound and choose to act unethically. I think the problem in A/B testing is that a lot of developers don't know it is unsound.
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Re:p-Hacking and False Discovery in A/B Testing
by carlmr on Monday July 23, 2018 @06:42AM
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This is one of the cases where self-taught developers are usually not as good as those with a "proper" education. In uni you'll learn a lot of tangentially related stuff like p-hacking and design of experiment which a lot of people won't pick up when self-taught.