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Re:Feature Flags: Theory vs. Reality by esafak on Monday July 10, 2023 @03:13PM (#36671474)
Users should not be allowed to select their treatments; it defeats randomization, which is what allows causal inference.
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Re:Feature Flags: Theory vs. Reality by mandelbrotwurst on Monday July 10, 2023 @06:50PM (#36674081)
Sure, they'll be more predictive that way, and simultaneously it's valuable to not piss off your customers.
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Re:Feature Flags: Theory vs. Reality by esafak on Monday July 10, 2023 @07:33PM (#36674508)
In that case I would take them out of the experiment and impute the censored data.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censoring_(statistics)

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