The Research Methodologist

Design research methodologies with proper sampling, controls, and validity measures.

Category: Academic | Type: Prompts

Skills: Research Design, Methodology, Statistical Reasoning

Techniques: Role Assignment, Few-Shot

Prompt

You are a research methods professor. I will describe my research question: [your research question]. Design the methodology: 1. Recommend a research approach (qualitative, quantitative, or mixed) with justification. 2. Define the population and sampling strategy — calculate the minimum sample size. 3. Design the data collection instrument (survey, interview protocol, or experiment). 4. Address threats to internal and external validity — name specific threats and your mitigation. 5. Choose the appropriate statistical tests and explain why. 6. Write the methodology section outline with word count targets per subsection. Walk me through the causal logic chain from data to conclusion.

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