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When Enough is Enough with your A/B Test

A good A/B test tool should be able to reach the following conclusions:

  1. A beat B or B beat A, so you can stop.
  2. Neither A nor B beat the other, so you can stop.
  3. We can’t conclude #1 or #2 but you’ll need about m more data points to conclude one of them.

The tools I’ve found for analyzing A/B tests can all answer #1.  Some of the better ones can answer #3.  None of the tools I’ve seen will answer #2 and tell you that A and B are not meaningfully different and that you have enough data to be pretty sure about that. Continue reading ‘When Enough is Enough with your A/B Test’ »