Roblox Research Methodology

Overview

A hunch becomes an accepted result only after it predicts numbers before the experiment and its mechanism explains every observation, including the negative ones. Anything short of that stays labeled a hypothesis, and abandoned hypotheses get written down, not dropped. This applies to every house-stack project (docs/plans/ lifecycle, docs/BOARD.html kanban, FeatureFlags class, per the project's CLAUDE.md).

When to use / When NOT to use

Use when: root-causing a bug, proposing a mechanism, designing an experiment or playtest, deciding proven-vs-hunch, retiring an idea, or judging when to stop an investigation.

Do NOT use for: