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So ask them; they aren't stupid, they wouldn't be building a business based on A/B testing without using valid methods of testing and displaying results. That you call the results crap because you don't have the perfect details of everything is simply absurd.


I didn't call the results "crap". I am simply pointing out that they are meaningless without knowing the methodology behind them. (And we aren't just missing the "perfect details of everything" here. As far as I can see, we have no rigorous details whatsoever.)

I would remind you that you were the person who was attacking another poster's position based on your interpretation of those currently meaningless numbers. It's up to you to back up your claim, not up to the rest of us to figure out whether your argument has any merit.


You called them gobbledegook, same difference.

> I am simply pointing out that they are meaningless without knowing the methodology behind them.

Only if you assume incompetence or malice on the part of Optimizely, neither of which you have any valid reason to do. It's perfectly reasonable to assume they aren't stupid and the results are valid.

> It's up to you to back up your claim, not up to the rest of us to figure out whether your argument has any merit.

Um, my claim is don't assume they're idiots; that doesn't require me to back anything up.

The poster I replied to wasn't attacking them, he was attacking statistic in general, which is what I was replying to.

Your response was to imply that Optimizely doesn't know what they're doing and therefore their results are invalid until you see how they're crunching the data; that's simply absurd.




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