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IMO, this is still a failure to understand split testing. It is not to discover if changing a button color matters, but to explore the universe of all possible treatments and how they impact your most important business metrics.

It’s a global optimization problem, not a scientific way to understand how a specific change impacts users. Testers that have this mindset tend to be locally constrained and less likely to have bigger wins.



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