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Re:Simpson's Paradox by clemiclemen on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @01:21PM (#39682194)
This reminds me of a similar story with YouTube [1] where improving the page weight decreased the metrics because more people with lower end connections could access the page.

Metrics interpretation is as important as the metrics themselves!

[1]: https://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters

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Re:Simpson's Paradox by jldugger on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @01:33PM (#39682350)
That may be exactly the story I was thinking of, or perhaps the original of a story I encountered on a GCP cloud post or something.
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