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Why Most A/B Tests Teach You Nothing

It's Not Techy Editorial 3 min readJune 22, 2024

The sample size problem

Most tests stop at 'statistically significant' without enough volume to generalize. A 2000-session test tells you about 2000 sessions, not the whole audience.

The isolated-variable problem

Testing five things at once and declaring a winner teaches nothing — you don't know which change worked. One variable per test, always.

The documentation problem

Tests happen, winners ship, nobody documents why. Six months later the team repeats the same test with a new junior running it. Documentation is the knowledge moat.

Killing bad tests

Ship the confident directional winner. Don't wait for statistical significance on low-volume tests. Action beats certainty on small samples.

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