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Methods Critique of a Paper You Have Pasted
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Methods and results text: {{PAPER_METHODS_RESULTS}}
Study type, if known (RCT, cohort, survey, qualitative, other): {{STUDY_TYPE}}
Appraisal checklist I must use, if any: {{CHECKLIST}}
Tasks:
1. Summarise the design in three sentences.
2. Assess, with quotes from the text, the main threats to validity for this kind of study: sampling and selection, measurement, confounding or alternative explanations, analysis choices, missing data, and generalisability. For qualitative work, use credibility, transferability and reflexivity instead.
3. Note where the conclusions go further than the reported methods and results support.
4. If I supplied a checklist, go through it item by item with yes, no or cannot tell, and the evidence in the text.
5. List what I should look for in supplementary material or the registration.
If the text does not give enough information for a judgement, say "cannot tell". Do not use outside knowledge about the authors or journal, and do not invent details of the study.
Output as headed sections. Close with a balanced paragraph on strengths.
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“Methods Critique of a Paper You Have Pasted” is a free prompt for ChatGPT in the Reasoning & Problem-Solving category, 185 words long, added to The Prompt Index on October 28, 2026 by The Prompt Index. Copy it with the button above, paste it into ChatGPT or any other AI chat assistant, and send it.
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{{PAPER_METHODS_RESULTS}}, {{STUDY_TYPE}}, {{CHECKLIST}}.
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