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🔎 Interesting reads you probably missed

Some interesting ideas from Iván Rozo on "How can we start to think more like scientists and make it easy for our teams to use experimentation as a daily practice?"

Jason Fried (co-founder Basecamp) shares his thoughts on decision making:

A company is essentially two things: a group of people and a collection of decisions. How those people make these decisions is the art of running a business. This guide shows how we do it.

Often you can't directly measure what you actually care about. Meta developed the experimentation with modeled variables playbook (xMVP) to help teams across Meta navigate this problem of unscalable ground truth.

Travis Brooks, Netflix Product Manager for Experimentation Platform, talks about how experimentation can build user empathy at scale.

Cassie Kozyrkov explains what stat sig actually means:

Contrary to popular belief, the term “statistically significant” does not mean that something important, momentous, or convincing took place. ... Statistics gives you a set of tools for decision-making, but how you use them is up to you — it’ll be as individual as any other decision.

Sven Schmit, Head of Statistics Engineering at Eppo went to the MIT CODE conference and shares his insights. A couple of his takeaways:

• interest in experimentation is growing rapidly, and we are only scratching the surface on problems practitioners face

• make solutions accessible to the non-expert so they feel empowered to make better decisions

A paper from Amazon that discusses the difficulties of drawing causal inferences, and the various methods that have been developed to try to overcome these difficulties.

🚀 Job opportunities

🔥 Now 75 job opportunities on ExperimentationJobs.com!

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• Marketing Manager, Subscription eCommerce & Onsite Conversion at The Washington Post (USA)

• Experimentation & Causal Inference Intern at Netflix (Los Gatos, USA)

• Sr Data Scientist Experimentation at Skyscanner (London, UK)

• Product Manager Measurements & Validation at bol.com (Utrecht, Netherlands)

• CRO Specialist (Netherlands)

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📅 Upcoming events

All upcoming events in the coming weeks:

• 3 Nov: Dutch CRO Awards (Amsterdam, NL)

• 🆕 29 Nov: CRAP Talks #20 (London, United Kingdom)

• 18-20 Nov: Conversion Hotel (Texel, the Netherlands)

• 💡 8 Dec: Experimentation Elite (London, United Kingdom)

Also checkout the full overview of events for next months.

💬 Quote of the week

"Statistics gives you a set of tools for decision-making, but how you use them is up to you — it’ll be as individual as any other decision." — Cassie Kozyrkov (source)

Fun of the week

Sometime we have done enough research and it's time to decide. (via Marketoonist)

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