Experiment Design Checklist

Prevent the "I ran experiments for 3 months and they're meaningless" disaster through rigorous upfront design.

The Core Principle

Before running ANY experiment, you should be able to answer:

1. What specific claim will this experiment support or refute?
2. What would convince a skeptical reviewer?
3. What could go wrong that would invalidate the results?

Process

Step 1: State the Hypothesis Precisely

Convert your research question into falsifiable predictions: