AB-Testing Challenges in Social Networks

How Facebook and Co overcome the Challenges of Interconnected Users in AB-Testing

Dennis Meisner
6 min readJul 14, 2020

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The concept of AB-Testing sounds simple: assign users randomly to a control or treatment group and check whether the users in the treatment group show the desired change in behavior (or any change at all) compared to the control. But what happens if users…

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