There's a lot of pressure in the modern workplace to be data driven, but you don't have to try too hard to find a salty data scientist who can tell you a story (or two or three) about a time that "product intuition" or "strategic bets" were used to justify a decision instead.
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While this is frustrating, insisting that every decision be purely quantitative also misses the point. It's almost as if people think performing the Sacred Ritual of A/B Testing protects them from being wrong, when the real goal of using data is being better than yesterday
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Replying to @imightbemary
If A/B testing were inherently definitive, Chaos Monkey would be in prod. Change everything randomly and self-optimize, we can just sit back and drink microbrews
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Replying to @bassett_green
yeah, exactly, or at least if that’s your approach, you better be prepared for a local optima based roadmap
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