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		nwhitehead on Nov 25, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What if successful startups are just lucky? You could also accept groups with good interviews in the experiment batch, but not include them in the experiment.

jbooth on Nov 25, 2013 [–]

But then they're effectively excluding the best-interviewing groups from the random experiment.

jayd16 on Nov 25, 2013 | [–]

Can't you pick the best interviews, then hold your experiment with random groups as long as you mix in a the data from the interview groups in such a way to build a representative sample?

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