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This article is really weakened by its failure to resolve the initial example.

What was it in the initial A/B test that resulted in your 10% improvement in conversion rate to be non-statistically significant?

Would applying a simple statistical test to your decision making process have resulted in a different conclusion?

There might be a deeper, useful insight in answering those questions, but as it stands now I really don't see anything valuable in this article. If anything it leads me to believe that the author is susceptible to p-hacking (see: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3204791)

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