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When treating some users secretly changes the others

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A ride-hailing app A/B tests a feature that makes treatment users request rides more aggressively. Treatment engagement is up, so the team wants to ship. But drivers are a shared, limited resource.

Explain how interference between units violates a core A/B assumption, why it biases the estimate here, and what designs address it.

Your answer

This one is open-ended. Work it through, then check your reasoning against the full solution.

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