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While interesting, I think that this is more of a mathematical proof for something that people doing any sort of testing should remember:

Don't stop before the test is complete, just because you've gotten an answer.

I generally leave my A/B tests up well after I've gotten a significance report, mostly because I'm lazy but also because I know that given enough time and enough entries, the significance reports can change.

Especially in the multi-variate tests that Evan wrote about, just because you get one result as significant doesn't preclude other possibilities from also being significant.



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