Data vs Intuition
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Data vs Intuition
"when the data and anecdotes disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. it’s not that the data is miscollected, it’s that you’re not measuring the right thing"
Jeff Bezos on the Lex Fridman podcast
Don’t get paralyzed by testing everything. If you can’t get statistical significance within a month, use pre/post analysis instead. Trust intuition more, especially when:
You have low traffic/conversion volumes
The change is low-risk
You need to move quickly
The impact is obvious
You have low traffic/conversion volumes
The change is low-risk
You need to move quickly
The impact is obvious
“One of the reasons the tech industry is so creatively bankrupt is that people just focus on attributes you can measure,” said Jony Ive, when told of the insecurity Kushner had confided to Rick Rubin. “I was very lucky at Apple, because Steve [Jobs] showed me there was a way to articulate things like sensibility, intuition, taste, which all start... See more
