Netflix Pulls the Plug on Feature Designed to Get Kids Addicted to Netflix

Re:Netflix Pulls the Plug on Feature Designed to Get Kids Ad... by tybit on Monday December 24, 2018 @11:30PM (#18755902)

I find it interesting that everyone’s alternatives all involve much more subjective decision making progress than A/B testing. Not that it necessarily makes them worse but it partly explains why it’s so popular to A/B test.

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Re:Netflix Pulls the Plug on Feature Designed to Get Kids Ad... by sbov on Monday December 24, 2018 @11:39PM (#18755931)

It's popular because math and stats are always right. Even if you've hacked your A/B test to the point of where you should have zero confidence in the results, you can still point to them and say "math says this is the best decision, so we should take it".

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Re:Netflix Pulls the Plug on Feature Designed to Get Kids Ad... by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday December 25, 2018 @07:54AM (#18757227)

Yes, in addition you need to define "right" -- people are fickle beasts.

You can test, find something is objectively better, but then have your users dislike it for fashion or historic reasons, or whatever.

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Re:Netflix Pulls the Plug on Feature Designed to Get Kids Ad... by darawk on Tuesday December 25, 2018 @01:32AM (#18756273)

That may be part of it, but maybe more importantly, it's also cheaper, which I think was the grandparent's point.

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Re:Netflix Pulls the Plug on Feature Designed to Get Kids Ad... by hinkley on Tuesday December 25, 2018 @01:42AM (#18756295)

Lies, damn lies, and statistics.

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