Topic

Proxy metrics

Short-term measures that correlate with a long-term business outcome and are used in its place when an experiment is too short or too small to move the real target. Related constructs include surrogate indices and guardrail metrics.

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Netflix scored a new launch rule by replaying 123 finished A/B tests

A new paper evaluates the decision rule itself by asking what every past test would have returned under it, and reports that the obvious backward-looking estimate runs high whenever each experiment's signal is weak.

Publishers:arxiv.org

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption28
Hype gap+12
Incentives55
Confidence55