SMRTR ProgrammingDec 26, 2025Hacker Noon

Three A/B Testing Mistakes I Keep Seeing (And How to Avoid Them)

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Many A/B test designers misuse statistical methods, leading to flawed conclusions. Common errors include using Mann-Whitney to compare medians when Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test is appropriate, applying bootstrapping without verifying sample representativeness, and defaulting to 5% Type I and 20% Type II error rates regardless of business context and constraints.

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