What is schema experiments?

Schema experiments is a concept in personal epistemology: Create specific tests that would show you if your mental model is accurate.

Example: You believe that morning meetings drain your team's productivity. That's a schema. To test it, you move all meetings to afternoons for two weeks and track ticket throughput, Slack message volume, and self-reported energy levels. If throughput doesn't change, your schema was wrong — and you've gained real data instead of operating on an untested assumption.

This concept is part of Phase 15 (Schema Validation) in the How to Think curriculum, which builds the epistemic infrastructure for schema validation.