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# Why We Experiment: Building a Culture of Experimentation

At Optimism, we’re committed to a bold vision: **Build an equitable internet, where ownership and decision-making power is decentralize**d across developers, users, and creators. We’ve realized that if we want to achieve this goal and pioneer a new model of digital democratic governance, we need to understand what works and what doesn’t. And just like clinical drug trials, or impact evaluations in developmental economics, running **controlled experiments is how we truly learn** about cause and effect.
At Optimism, we’re committed to a bold vision: **Build an equitable internet, where ownership and decision-making power is decentralized** across developers, users, and creators. We’ve realized that if we want to achieve this goal and pioneer a new model of digital democratic governance, we need to understand what works and what doesn’t. And just like clinical drug trials, or impact evaluations in developmental economics, running **controlled experiments is how we truly learn** about cause and effect.

Designing a successful decentralized governance system is uncharted territory, so there’s no shortage of open questions about cause and effect that we need to understand. For instance: *Do delegation reward programs improve delegation? Do prediction markets make better decisions than councils? Do veto powers increase legitimacy? Do various voting mechanisms decrease collusion? Does deliberation increase consensus? Do airdrops increase engagement?* To name just a few.

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# When We Experiment: Prioritization Framework

As we’ve discussed above, experiments are well-suited for a specific type of question (i.e., about cause and effect), though it’s sometime impractical to experiment with human behavior. And finally, experiments also take resources and time to execute well. With this in mind, here’s how we think about when to experiment:
As we’ve discussed above, experiments are well-suited for a specific type of question (i.e., about cause and effect), though it’s sometimes impractical to experiment with human behavior. And finally, experiments also take resources and time to execute well. With this in mind, here’s how we think about when to experiment:

![Should this be an experiment](/img/research/experiment.png)

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