social-sciences/empirical-study-lifecycle-workflow overview

End-to-end empirical social-science study lifecycle: research question and construct definition -> ctx-driven design-family selection (experimental | quasi-experimental | mixed-methods) -> parallel instrument development and validation -> adversarial design-integrity gate -> pre-registration authoring and policy-gated registry submission (the LOCK) -> ethics/IRB review with a bounded revise-and-resubmit loop that FAILS at the cap -> policy-gated participant recruitment -> parallel data-collection waves -> parallel analysis execution against the registered specifications -> pre-registration adherence check with a policy-gated amendment breakpoint -> adversarial methodological-integrity gate whose critics RE-RUN the analysis checks and EXECUTE a registered-plan-vs-analysis-run diff -> program evaluation and policy-impact assessment -> participant-data disclosure control -> policy brief and manuscript -> policy-gated publication -> deterministic kip capture (kind `empirical-study`).