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Assuming you're able to actually achieve truly random participation in the various arms you're trialing, you're right.

And it's my fault for not thinking of that as a possibility. Colour me jaded after experiencing very many bad attempts at randomization that actually suffer from Simpson's paradox in various ways!



You're absolutely correct, proper A/B testing has many engineering challenges!




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