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commres-research-design
Use when defending the research design of a Communication Research (CR) manuscript — experiments (lab/online), panel surveys, and content analysis with intercoder reliability. CR is quantitative and demanding about identification, measurement, and confound control. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.
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# Research Design (commres-research-design)
CR is a **quantitative** journal and demanding about each design. The design must credibly connect the
hypotheses (`commres-theory-building`) to evidence and defeat the strongest rival explanation. This
skill is mode-aware — pick the section that matches your study and defend it on social-science terms.
## When to trigger
- Specifying an experiment, panel survey, or content-analysis protocol
- A reviewer questioned causal claims, sampling, coding reliability, validity, or a confound
- Preparing a **preregistration** / pre-analysis plan (note it in the cover letter)
- Justifying why your design adjudicates the rival account from `commres-literature-positioning`
## Experiments (lab / online / survey-embedded)