Why we moved away from Conversion Rate as a primary metric

The impact of violating assumptions of independence on AB Tests and changing the primary metric for your company

Bhavik Patel
Towards Data Science
7 min readJun 24, 2021

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Changing the primary metric for any company is not a straightforward thing to do. Why you may ask? There are dozens of reasons but here are some of the ones that come to my mind:

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Founder of CAUSL, a product measurement consultancy. Ex-Director/Head of Analytics at Hopin/Gousto/MOO/PhotoBox. Twitter: @dodonerd