This question evaluates a data scientist's competency in defining and interpreting engagement, retention, and downstream metrics and in designing experiments to measure the impact of notification systems; category/domain: Analytics & Experimentation for data science roles.

You are a data scientist at Facebook working on push notifications. Facebook sends many notification types and is considering launching a new notification that alerts a user when a friend plans to attend an event.
Hints: Consider funnel metrics, user experience trade-offs, A/B tests, downstream engagement, and churn.
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