{"id":55976,"date":"2021-01-14T16:12:38","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T10:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vwo.com\/blog\/?p=55976"},"modified":"2026-02-27T17:54:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:24:20","slug":"ab-test-widely-held-beliefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vwo.com\/blog\/ab-test-widely-held-beliefs\/","title":{"rendered":"No, that won&#8217;t work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-background\" style=\"background-color:#f8f3f3\"><em>Hi ?&nbsp; I am&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paraschopra\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Paras Chopra<\/a>, founder &amp; chairman of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/vwo.com\/\">VWO<\/a>. Here is the 7th post in my fortnightly series outlining&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/vwo.com\/blog\/letters-from-the-founder\/\">a new idea or a story&nbsp;<\/a>on experimentation and growth<\/em>. Hope you find it valuable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week I interviewed Ian Harris, a professor of surgery, for my podcast. His research has found that over half of all surgeries are ineffective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, you heard that right: <strong>the majority of surgeries don\u2019t work (as compared to a placebo)<\/strong>. The list of what doesn\u2019t work includes commonly done surgeries such as those done for knee pain, back pain, hip replacement, and so on. (If you don\u2019t believe me, I highly recommend watching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IzueFu1cq5U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this talk<\/a> by the professor.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/vwo.com\/ab-testing\/#guide-download\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Download Free: A\/B Testing Guide<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"664\" src=\"https:\/\/static.wingify.com\/gcp\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/01\/nl-1024x664.png\" alt=\"Nl\" class=\"wp-image-55978\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.wingify.com\/gcp\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/01\/nl-1024x664.png?tr=w-1024 1024w, https:\/\/static.wingify.com\/gcp\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/01\/nl-1024x664.png?tr=w-768 768w, https:\/\/static.wingify.com\/gcp\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/01\/nl-1024x664.png?tr=w-640 640w, https:\/\/static.wingify.com\/gcp\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/01\/nl-1024x664.png?tr=w-375 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This claim indeed sounds shocking, but recall that the most common surgical procedure in human history was bloodletting. In this practice that lasted for thousands of years and was common until the 1850s, the doctor would make a cut in the body and simply let out the blood of the patient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone thought this should work (partly because everyone did it) and many different variations of bloodletting were iterated and compared with each other. <strong>But, amazingly, a question that wasn\u2019t asked until the 19th century was whether performing bloodletting works better than not doing it at all?<\/strong> Once this question was asked and a randomized control study was done, it was quickly understood that bloodletting doesn\u2019t work (but may actually actively harm the patient).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let me reiterate\u2026 bloodletting was performed for over 2000 years before it was discovered that it doesn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This makes you wonder &#8211; what else that we do commonly doesn\u2019t actually work?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Actually, the sad part is that we don\u2019t know what doesn\u2019t work because, apart from medicine and science, we don\u2019t perform enough randomized control trials (which are nothing but A\/B tests in the marketing parlance). Even in the field of surgery, a systematic review of ~10,000 surgical procedures discovered that an A\/B test was conducted for only 1% of such procedures. The remaining 99% of procedures were simply assumed to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In our day to day work as marketers, product managers, or leaders, we take so many decisions that feel right. Surely, that \u201cbest practice\u201d change should work. Or this new campaign makes sense, so it should be run. But does it really work? What evidence do you have that if you hadn\u2019t done anything, that metric wouldn\u2019t have gone up?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like the human body, <a href=\"https:\/\/vwo.com\/blog\/ab-testing-gets-you-promotion\/\">businesses and markets are complex systems<\/a>. There are thousands of factors that influence whether a particular action will have the desired impact. If the suggested action is our idea, we\u2019re biased to believe that it works.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/vwo.com\/ab-testing\/#guide-download\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Download Free: A\/B Testing Guide<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>However, learning from the ineffectiveness of bloodletting and many such surgeries that are still performed, the right attitude should be that best practices and genius ideas may simply not work (or, worse, may actively harm).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unless a properly set up randomized control trial (or an A\/B test) gives clear evidence of harm or benefit of a particular action, it would pay to believe that it probably doesn\u2019t have any impact. <strong>The default orientation towards a new idea should be: no, it doesn\u2019t work<\/strong> (unless you can prove that it works).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, yes you should really be planning to <a href=\"https:\/\/vwo.com\/blog\/how-to-run-25000-a-b-tests\/\">run 25,000 A\/B tests in 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you have a story of an A\/B test that debunked a widely held belief? I\u2019d love to know about it. Send me a note at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:paras@vwo.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">paras@vwo.com<\/a>. I read and reply to all emails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I interviewed Ian Harris, a professor of surgery, for my podcast. 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