Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO

Re:Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO by mehrdada on Sunday January 20, 2019 @02:03AM (#18951600)

I doubt there are companies exclusively rely on A/B tests to make decisions, but even if there were, someone has to think about hypothesis and design the right experiment to then confirm with data. You can't just have a computer running around and make experiments and confirm them for youº.

º: you kind of can, if you have enough fresh data, to search for and derive statistically significant results automatically.

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Re:Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO by blobster on Sunday January 20, 2019 @02:08AM (#18951615)

Maybe it's just me, but I don't think the secret behind this kind of success is just properly designing experiments. Again, if this were true, the best founders would be data scientists. But they're not. They are visionaries. So I reckon it must be the vision.

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Re:Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO by morningcovfefe on Sunday January 20, 2019 @02:13AM (#18951629)

Vision is obviously necessary - but a big problem folks run into is failing to recognize when something is not working. A/B testing is one way to keep yourself from falling into the trap of thinking 'I know better than my users what they should want'

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Re:Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO by TylerE on Sunday January 20, 2019 @02:48AM (#18951759)

Also a good way to find a local maximum when there are much higher maxima not far removed.

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Re:Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO by blobster on Sunday January 20, 2019 @02:20AM (#18951647)

I agree, but I think this doesn't apply to innovation. When is comes to innovation, people always want faster horses.

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Re:Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO by rv-de on Sunday January 20, 2019 @02:37AM (#18951718)

that depends on the validity and accuracy of your test metric.

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Re:Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO by andrepd on Sunday January 20, 2019 @05:40AM (#18952375)

>Again, if this were true, the best founders would be data scientists. But they're not. They are visionaries.

[citation needed]

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Re:Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO by lenzm on Sunday January 20, 2019 @04:22AM (#18952129)

You'd be paralyzed by indecision if every decision had to be driven by the results of a test.

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