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Check statistical significance of current A/B testing results #323

Open mlandauer opened 4 years ago

mlandauer commented 4 years ago

On the first PlanningAlerts email we're doing an A/B test between two different subject lines. These are the results after running the experiment for a bit under 4 hours:

Using https://neilpatel.com/ab-testing-calculator/ this gives an 81% confidence that A is better than B which is not yet statistically significant.

When we look at donations coming through to donorbox we see:

But the number of donations is actually very similar. The difference is made by just 2 donations in version A that are for larger amounts. So, I don't think we can extrapolate anything from this currently