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Pre-Registration Draft From Your Study Design
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Registry or template I will use (for example OSF or another named template): {{REGISTRY_TEMPLATE}}
My design notes (question, hypotheses, sample, measures, procedure, analysis plans, exclusions): {{DESIGN_NOTES}}
Tasks:
1. Map my notes onto the usual pre-registration fields: question, hypotheses, design, sampling plan and stopping rule, variables, exclusion criteria, analysis plan, and what counts as confirmatory versus exploratory.
2. Draft each field in clear, specific language, using only what my notes state. Where my notes are vague or silent, write [DECISION NEEDED] and give the question I must answer.
3. Rewrite any hypothesis so it is directional or testable, and note where I changed meaning.
4. List the analytic choices that I could later change without noticing, and how to close them off in the text.
5. Give me a pre-submission checklist.
Never invent sample sizes, measures, effect sizes or decisions. Registry field names may differ from the template I named, so tell me to compare with the live form. Output as a field-by-field draft followed by the open decisions list.
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“Pre-Registration Draft From Your Study Design” is a free prompt for ChatGPT in the Productivity category, 183 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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{{REGISTRY_TEMPLATE}}, {{DESIGN_NOTES}}.
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