Checking an A/B test until it crosses p < 0. 05 can turn a nominal 5 percent false-positive rate into almost 28 percent.
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arXiv:2608. 14425v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM evaluations often use fixed sampling budgets, testing every item the same number of times even after estimates are precise.