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Re:Who Killed the Scrollbar? by rb808 on Friday October 25, 2019 @01:15PM (#21357087)
But our A/B testing shows a 5% increase in engagement by making it crappy.
Re:Who Killed the Scrollbar? by buboard on Friday October 25, 2019 @01:41PM (#21357367)
Oh yeah, i was pressing all your buttons randomly because none of them were obvious what they do. I was surely engaging with your app very much, while swearing.
Re:Who Killed the Scrollbar? by rhizome on Friday October 25, 2019 @01:55PM (#21357497)
Voice recognition is still a few revisions off, thank you for your patience.
Re:Who Killed the Scrollbar? by arkitaip on Friday October 25, 2019 @01:21PM (#21357157)
But then we actually had a 13% decrease because our test was fundamentally flawed. Also, we don't really understand the statistics behind a/b testing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Re:Who Killed the Scrollbar? by catalogia on Friday October 25, 2019 @05:26PM (#21359402)
Meanwhile it seems like very few people in the industry actually understand statistics well enough to not shoot themselves in the foot. The number of times I've seen accidental p-hacking is absurd. Having to explain to people why they can't stop running a trial as soon as the numbers look good is like pulling teeth.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3204791