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kccqzy • yesterday at 9:32 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Instead of giving users a confidence interval, ask the user to specify a p value. Then run something like Welch’s t test.


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mlyle • today at 1:54 AM

Nah because we care about the size of the effect too.

We can get a p<0.0001 finding of an otherwise terrible, annoying change that saves 1%.