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by ano-ther 1093 days ago
Good observation that the noticing doesn’t get tested.

Would there be any benefit from knowing the notice rate though? After all, the intended outcome is increased sales by clicking.

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This is what I was driving at in my original comment - the intermediary steps are not of interest (from the POV of the hypothesis/overall experiment), so why mention them at all.
Probably not, but then that hypothesis should not be part of the experiment.