Method, and why this one
About 3 weeks· Work out how you will do it
The justification is examined as hard as the results.
Where this sits
How you will produce evidence, and the argument for why that method can answer this question rather than a neighbouring one.
The question this stage answers: How will you produce evidence, and why can that method answer this?
This whole block ends with: Ends when you are cleared to start collecting.
Others at the same stage
- Pilot on a small sampleFinds the flaw that would otherwise cost you a year of collecting the wrong thing.
- Ethics approval / data accessThe classic hidden blocker. Approval boards run on their calendar, not yours.
- Data management planWhere it lives, who can see it, how it is backed up. Increasingly a formal requirement.