Iota Research Lab

How it works

1. Pre-register. Every experiment starts with a dated document: the hypothesis, the data, the method, and the result that would prove it wrong.
2. Publish everything. Results go up whichever way they point, including when they disconfirm the thesis.
3. Track it IRL. Each idea gets a model portfolio with fixed rules, logged monthly in a record that is never edited.

Why “Iota”

• The Greek I. The author’s initial, so every result is signed.
• The smallest letter. A deliberately small lab. Not one iota more than the evidence supports.
• The imaginary unit. In some classrooms i, where i² = −1, is called iota. A number that can’t exist on the real line, yet runs through real engineering. Every idea here starts imaginary; the lab’s job is to find out what holds up IRL.