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This kind of ranking is also not correct. You have to compare the outcomes , not their p values. Ranking by p values is just silly, just like ranking by avg metric is silly.

Startups in general have to make decisions with high signal, thinking that 100 improvements of 1% p=0.05 will actually compound in an environment with so much noise is delusion.

I’d say doing this kind of silliness in a startup is just ceremonial, helpful long term if people feel they are doing a good job optimizing a compounding metric, even though it never materializes.






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