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MWITA-MIO-2026-001 · Evidence A · P1

Across 15 Facebook advertising RCTs, commonly used observational estimators often failed to recover experiment-identified lift even with extensive demographic and behavioral controls; in half of the purchase studies every tested observational method missed percentage lift by at least a factor of three.

D01 · Marketing, Brand & Revenue SystemsD03 · Intelligence, Research & Decision ProductsD19 · Measurement, Experimentation & Economics

What this does not establish

Does not show that every observational estimator is biased upward or that experiments are automatically valid; the evidence is specific to Facebook campaigns and the logged covariates available in these studies.

Counterevidence & uncertainty

High-dimensional adjustment sometimes came close but did not reliably remove exposure-selection bias, contradicting the premise that granular platform data alone make attribution causal.

What would change the reading

Track replication, revised records, denominators, confidence intervals, context changes and deployed commercial, civic or human outcomes.

Primary routes

  1. MIO-S001https://doi.org/10.1287/mksc.2018.1135Open source record →

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