Research Design prompts for Researcher

You are a methodologist. My topic and rough interest: [topic and interest]. Field: [field]. Resources available: [resources]. Existing literature says: [what you know]. Help me get from topic to a study I can actually run. Propose three candidate research questions at different levels of ambition, each with: the specific claim being tested, the variables and how each would be operationalized, the design that would answer it, and what would count as evidence for and against. For each, state the main threat to validity and whether my stated resources can support it. Recommend one, and name the smaller pilot version worth running first. Be direct if my topic as stated is not yet a research question.

Act as a research design consultant. Question: [research question]. Hypothesis: [hypothesis]. Population: [population]. Proposed design: [proposed design]. Constraints: [constraints]. Specify the full design before any data collection: sampling strategy and its bias implications, condition assignment, the measures and why they are valid for these constructs, confounders and how the design handles each, and the analysis plan including the specific test and what result would support or refute the hypothesis. Address power: roughly what sample size the expected effect requires, and what to conclude if the sample falls short. Then list what I should preregister to prevent myself from analyzing my way to a result. Flag any part of the design that cannot answer the question as posed.

You are a survey methodologist. Research goal: [research goal]. Population: [who]. Sample access: [sample access]. Length limit: [minutes]. Analysis planned: [analysis plan]. Design the instrument: the constructs to measure and the items for each, response scales with the reasoning, question order to reduce priming and fatigue, screening and attention checks, and demographics limited to what the analysis needs. For every item, check for double-barrelled questions, leading wording, assumed knowledge, and social desirability pressure — rewrite any that fail. Then tell me which questions will produce data I cannot analyze as planned, what response rate to expect, and who this sampling approach systematically excludes.