Passing the torch to the next generation of tourist cum expert. You can't expect these folks to stick with their avocatiom more than a few months before quitting.
This has changed a lot for the better in recent years.
Also, a lot of geniuses are socially inept. I doubt you said everything right in your interview either. It helps to smile and keep going when one person in ten shows a flaw.
The point is that with less significance you are less confidential what your conversion rate "would have been" under other courses of action. You can't say "this or that test has higher conversion" because of some simulation that has totally different structure than your real website.
Statistical about managing unknowns, not creating knowns, and everyone ignores this!
Same way every product from GWO and T&T on down: show a pretty graph that ignores the underlying assumption that it's even possible to use statistics to conjure certainty from uncertainty, and trust that users will never know or care about the difference.
/former AB test software dev who fought my users to try to stop them from misinterpretation results, and failed.
AirBnB attacked Craigslist users, not the website itself. AirBnB didn't post a copy of CP online. The spammed users could have tried to bring action against AirBnB under CAN-SPAM.
It's funny to see the startup crowd rediscovering age-old techniques... Seen the Amazon.com home page recently? Does it look the same every day for a month?