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bee_rider on July 12, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: A/B testing gets misused to juice metrics in the s...

If it possible that there'd be a long term effect like:

* Users know you have a nice gallery

* They are more likely to shop at your store

* In the end, you get more sales despite the lower conversation rate

epolanski on July 12, 2022 [–]

I agree with your point, but after finding out that in this industry you just need to be able to monkey some code to be called an engineer, random people are now data analysts because they can pull "experiment A revenue up, experiment B revenue down" and call it a day.

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