AI for Pricing Experiment Design

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1. What is the main risk when conducting pricing experiments without preregistration or pre-defined criteria?

   1. The experiment will be rejected by regulatory bodies
   2. AI tools cannot be used without pre-registration
   3. The results will automatically be negative
   4. The test will likely drift and lose methodological rigor over time

2. Which of the following tasks can AI reliably assist with in pricing experiment design?

   1. Drafting hypotheses and success metrics from a stated business goal
   2. Approving customer-facing price changes before they go live
   3. Determining the final optimal price without human input
   4. Estimating the true price elasticity for your specific market

3. What is the primary purpose of a stop/scale decision matrix in a pricing experiment?

   1. To determine which customers receive the test pricing
   2. To pre-commit to specific actions based on defined outcome thresholds
   3. To select the AI model that will analyze the results
   4. To format the experiment's final report

4. Why should existing customers typically be carved out of a pricing experiment?

   1. Pricing experiments cannot legally include existing customers
   2. Their trust is valuable and costly to damage; a failed test could harm retention
   3. Existing customers never respond to pricing changes
   4. AI systems cannot process data from existing customers

5. In a pricing experiment, what is the role of a guardrail metric?

   1. To define the hypothesis being tested
   2. To serve as the primary measure of experiment success
   3. To determine whether to scale the experiment
   4. To monitor for unacceptable negative outcomes

6. Which of the following would be most appropriate as a primary metric for a pricing experiment?

   1. Customer satisfaction score
   2. Number of customer support tickets
   3. Revenue per user or conversion rate
   4. Employee satisfaction score

7. What limitation specifically prevents AI from autonomously setting final prices?

   1. AI lacks the ability to perform mathematical calculations
   2. AI cannot account for brand positioning and strategic considerations
   3. AI cannot take on legal responsibility for customer-facing price changes
   4. AI cannot generate text outputs

8. When AI suggests segment cuts for a pricing experiment, what should the human team do?

   1. Evaluate them critically and adjust based on domain knowledge
   2. Accept all AI suggestions without question
   3. Replace the AI with a different tool
   4. Ignore the suggestions entirely since AI knows nothing about their market

9. What is required in addition to a hypothesis when preparing a pricing experiment for launch?

   1. A video demonstration of the product
   2. Primary metric, guardrail metrics, and stop/scale rules
   3. A commitment to never change prices again
   4. Approval from every department in the company

10. A pricing experiment shows strong revenue results but a spike in customer cancellations. What should the decision framework prioritize?

    1. Both equally, with no clear guidance
    2. The AI recommendation, whatever it may be
    3. The cancellation spike, since guardrail metrics protect against unacceptable harms
    4. Revenue results, since that is the primary metric

11. Which document should be completed before launching a pricing experiment according to best practices described in this area?

    1. A customer interview script
    2. A hypothesis-and-criteria document specifying metrics and decision rules
    3. A marketing materials draft
    4. A competitor analysis report

12. Why might AI-generated segment suggestions still require human review?

    1. Human review is required by law for all segmentation
    2. AI suggestions may not account for unique business context or customer relationships that humans understand
    3. AI always suggests segments that are too expensive to test
    4. AI cannot count past the number ten

13. What happens if a pricing experiment lacks a pre-defined stop/scale rule?

    1. The AI will automatically stop the experiment
    2. The experiment will automatically pass
    3. The experiment cannot be launched
    4. Researchers may make biased post-hoc decisions about whether to continue

14. In the context of pricing experiments, what does the term 'hypothesis' refer to?

    1. A proven fact about pricing
    2. A testable prediction about how a price change will affect behavior
    3. A summary of past pricing decisions
    4. A mathematical formula for calculating elasticity

15. What is the relationship between guardrail metrics and experiment continuation?

    1. Guardrail metrics determine how much to scale the experiment
    2. Guardrail metrics are only measured after the experiment ends
    3. If any guardrail metric is breached, the experiment must stop regardless of primary metric results
    4. Guardrail metrics have no impact on scaling decisions