SKILL 7 OF 9 · METRICS AND LEARNING ANALYTICS
A/B testing
Changing one thing for some people and comparing what they do. I read the result with Alex Edmans’ Ladder of Misinference?LADDER OF MISINFERENCEAlex Edmans’ four checks before trusting a finding: is it accurate, is the sample representative, could something else explain it, and does it hold beyond this case? before anything is claimed.
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Four questions on the ladder
- RUNG 1Is the number accurate?
- RUNG 2Is the sample representative?
- RUNG 3Could something else explain it?
- RUNG 4Does it hold beyond this case?
Redesigning the gamified loops
I redesigned Animal Planet’s gamified loops from engagement data and A/B tested the redesign.
Randomising the gateway cards
Sessions comparing two or more gateways?GATEWAYSThe seven broad sectors in the MBacc, like Digital or Financial, that young people explore careers through., before and after the order of the gateway cards was randomised. Part of last year’s figure was people clicking the next card down, so the lower number is the truer reading.