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The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act

Occam's Razor

It essentially allowed you to create a group of friends who could interact and share content, much as people do today with Google+, before such features were part of Facebook. Because they find interaction with others rewarding and compelling. By late 2009, that experiment was a success, too; they'd climbed back up to 4.5

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Fact-based Decision-making

Peter James Thomas

By the time that people who need to take decisions based on such information are in the loop, the inherent uncertainty of the prediction may have disappeared. As Neil puts it in his article: […] technology is never a solution to social problems, and interactions between human beings are inherently social. This can be problematic.

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