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Correcting a Stakeholder's Reading of a p-Value
An experiment reports p = 0.03 for a lift in sign-up rate. In the review meeting three claims are made:
- PM: "There is a 97% chance the new flow is better."
- Engineer: "p = 0.03 means only a 3% chance the result is due to random chance."
- Analyst: "Since the segment test on returning users gave p = 0.20, we've shown the change does nothing for returning users."
- Explain what p = 0.03 actually means and what is wrong with each claim.
- The returning-user segment had 400 users versus 9,000 in the overall test. What concept is missing from the analyst's claim, and what would you compute or report instead?
- Give the one-sentence phrasing you would put in the write-up.
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